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Drenching the soil around affected plants at monthly intervals with 0.2 per cent captan or 0.1 per cent quintozene was highly effective and led to almost double the tuber yields of untreated plants.
Chapter 16 1987
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Southern blight (due to Corticium rolfsii) sometimes attacks dry land taro and has been controlled by dicloran or quintozene.
Chapter 32 1987
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But the fungicide quintozene was found at levels as high as 0.3 parts per million, above the limit of 0.1 ppm set for foods such as tomato paste, and the insecticide diazanon was found at levels as high as 1 ppm, when the limits for other foods on this year's USDA list range from 0.1 to 0.75 ppm.
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For detailed background notes on dioxins, quintozene and the APVMA's regulatory action go to www. apvma.gov.au/quintozene.
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'The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has suspended all approvals and registrations for the agricultural chemical quintozene and its products', Dr Simon Cubit, spokesperson for the APVMA said today.
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'The impact of the decision is that quintozene products cannot be supplied or used in Australia until further notice.
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Products containing quintozene have very limited use in agriculture or food production and are not used in the home garden.
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'This decision has been made after undeclared dioxin impurities were found in quintozene products at levels that may present health risks to workers who frequently apply them.'
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The APVMA's concern is focussed on workers who directly handle quintozene products. '
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xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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