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- noun A
triazine insect growth regulator used as aninsecticide andacaricide .
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Examples
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The contaminant melamine, the parent chemical for a potent insecticide cyromazine, could well have been manufactured WITHIN the wheat plants themselves as a genetically engineered pesticide.
What do Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, and Oggie Dog have in common? 2008
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In a commercial-scale trial, foliar sprays containing Neemros® at 10 - 25 g/l of water applied in combination with Trigard (whose Al is cyromazine) controlled leaf miners on Carthamus in a flower farm in Naivasha.
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Ciba Geigy, the manufacturers of the compound, have indicated that although cyromazine has proved successful against mushroom pests and also root pests, they currently have no plans to test the product against stored product pests.
Chapter 7 1994
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"It appears plausible," Tittlemier and her colleagues now conclude, "that milk from cattle exposed to cyromazine may contain melamine," explaining how the chemical could end up in milk-based infant formula.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Sheryl Tittlemier and her colleagues do finger one key suspect: the insecticide cyromazine.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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Because plants and animals metabolize cyromazine - producing melamine as a result.
Marler Blog 2009
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The use of cyromazine - and other chemically related pesticides - on crops is not the only way in which melamine can enter our food supply on an industrial scale.
Marler Blog 2009
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Which brings Tittlemier's group back to cyromazine, an insecticide used on Canadian and U.S. produce.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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EPA has established residue limits for cyromazine in a variety of fruits, legumes and vegetables, including corn, lettuce, beans, mangoes and tomatoes.
Marler Blog 2009
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Radish (roots or greens) and corn destined for animal feed must have no more than 0.5 ppm cyromazine.
Marler Blog 2009
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