In the AGROW Product Stewardship and Risk Mitigation Award category, Dow AgroSciences was named a finalist for its stewardship program for Profume® gas fumigant. The award category recognizes outstanding management of agrochemical or agbiotech products in a sustainable way.
“Dow AgroSciences has nearly 50 years of experience in manufacturing and marketing fumigants,” says Jason Nelson, marketing specialist for Profume. “Dow AgroSciences has a strong corporate stewardship policy. As a part of that, we require that all fumigators receive annual training to ensure safe handling and proper application.”
Profume gas fumigant also was recently awarded the Best of the Best Ozone Stratospheric Protection Award by the Environmental Protection Agency. Dow AgroSciences was also named as finalist by AGROW in three other categories:
Aminopyralid-based herbicides in the Best New Crop Protection Product award category
Spinetoram insecticide in the Most Innovative Chemistry award category
Agricultural Science Outreach Tours in the Best Public Program award category
Dow AgroSciences was the winner in the 2007 Best Formulation Innovation category for its ECOZOME™ new century formulation technology. ECOZOME technology is a system that delivers favorable attributes through reduction of undesirable organic chemical solvents.
“We are extremely pleased and honored to be a finalist in four categories,” said Daniel R. Kittle, Ph.D., vice president, Research and Development for Dow AgroSciences and Dow Core Biotechnology. “And we are even more thrilled to accept the AGROW Award for the innovative work we’ve done with ECOZOME.”
This is the first year AGROW Awards have been presented. Entries were judged by a panel of 13 industry professionals from around the world. AGROW Awards honor corporate and individual excellence in the crop protection and production industry. Award winners were named Oct. 16 at a dinner and presentation in Glasgow, UK.