Contents 2008

 

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December


 

 

January

• Reach: are you ready? Important items in a nutshell plus hyperlinks by Julia A. Hatcher and Matthew Brewer (Latham & Watkins)

 • Reach basics

 • Registration deadlines

 • Data sharing

 • Co-formulants and adjuvants

 • Implications for importers of adjuvants

 • Exemptions pesticide active ingredients
• One-day workshop Adjuvants and Pesticide Application in Australia
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

 

 

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February

• New common names for pesticides reached rock bottem - decline in new molecules

 • Formulation as tool to stand out from competitors
• News in brief

 • Control of Asian Soybean rust at low carrier volumes

 • Review mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants

 • Charging and swelling of cellulose films
• Symposia abstracts (hyperlinks) of WSSA 2008 and NCWSS 2007
• Literature highlight: special (free) issue of The Environmentalist on pesticide formulation and application technology
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

 

 

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March

• Patents: effective crystalline forms of pesticides increasingly prized and patented
Metazachlor subject of patent battle

 • Polymorphism expands rapidly as research field

 • Glyphosate patents

 • Patents on particle size
• Symposia abstracts (hyperlinks) of WSWS 2007 and SWSC 2007
• Debate in California after publication of inert ingredient information by the EPA
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

 

 

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April

• More efficient application of PGR's in ornamentals with a crop safe adjuvant

 • Polyglycerol adjuvant

 • Hydrangea

 • Poinsettia
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journal

 

 

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May

• CRODA goes for Crop Care

 • Company information

 • Polymeric adjuvants
•  Formulating for efficacy (FFE) is a need
  • Polarity approach
• Surfactant structure and spray retention
• Degussa and Goldschmidt are now Evonik
• Nanoparticles for controlled release of bifentrin
• Adjuvants improve bispyribac-sodium efficacy
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

 

 

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June

• Molecular Imprinted Polymers (MIP) and agchem formulations

 • Innovations

 • Patents

 • Seed and soil application
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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July

• DLG Fair in Germany attracted 20,000 visitors

 • OD formulations

 • Adjuvant for sulfosulfuron

 • Glyhosate for pre-harvest crop treatment
  • Adjuvants at DLG
• Preview: formulation and application technologie at ASTM 2008
  • Adjuvants for tembotrione
  • Adjuvants for herbicides and insecticides
  • Formulation and application improvements
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals
• Summary APS Meeting 2008
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online

 

 

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August

• Glyphosate application in Columbia - an ongoing debate

 • Plan Columbia

 • Glyphosate formulations

 • Evidence risks

 • Monsanto questions validity non-standard studies

 • Perspectives
• News in brief

• Plasticising effect surfactant demonstrated by AFM method

 • Peter Baur (BayerCropscience) 'The Optimizer'

 • Petro-Canada filed patents on formulation of auxin-type herbicides
• Inerts legislation at recent CPDA meeting; hyperlinks to presentations
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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September

• Glyphosate patents: new formulations and new high purity products

 • High purity products

 • Adjuvants

 • Claims functions organic extender in new glyphosate product
  • Other glyphosate-related patents
  • Follow-up patent applications
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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October

• ASTM 2008 presents state-of-the-art

 • Response HPPD-inhibitor herbicides on adjuvant classes

 • Novel oil-in-water emulsions

 • Application of double-comb polymers in SC and SE formulations
• Editorial: advertisements
• Innovations at the 2008 German Plant Protection Meeting
  • Micro-encapsulation technology for pendimethalin
  • ME formulations enable incorporation of trisiloxane and polysiloxane surfactants
  • Adjuvant applications of 1:1 mix alkoxylated fatty amine and polyoxyethylene laurate ester
  • Ethyl-esterified rapeseed oil improves performance of nicosulfuron and rimsulfuron
• Symposia titles plus hyperlinks to abstracts
  • 236th ACS 2008 meeting
  • 2008 Meeting GSA-SSSA-ASA-CSSA-GCAGS-HGS
  • Int. Congress Entomology 2008 (ICE)
  • EWRS and Hebrew University Jurasalem Weed Management 2007
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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November

• Adjuvant information online
• New book on sugar-based surfactants
• Formulation and adjuvant quotes
• Abstracts 2008 annual meeting Entomological Society of America
• Literature
• Patents online
• Agenda online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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December

• Patents reflect search for new carriers and delivery systems

 • Solvent choice

 • Special carriers

 • Ultrafine carriers

 • Nanosized actives

 • Cubosomes as delivery systems

 • Delivery systems
• Literature
• Patents online
• Agenda online
• Advertising companies online

 

 

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