Dow AgroSciences

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was a wholly owned

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of the

Dow Chemical Company The Dow Chemical Company, officially Dow Inc., is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. The company is among the three largest chemical producers in the world. Dow manufactures plastic ...

specializing in not only

agricultural chemical An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of ''agricultural chemical'', is a chemical product used in industrial agriculture. Agrichemical refers to biocides (pesticides including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and nematicides) and sy ...

s such as

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s, but also

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s and

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solutions. The company was based in

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, in the

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. On 31 January 2006, Dow AgroSciences announced that it had received regulatory approval for the world's first plant-cell-produced vaccine against

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from

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Center for Veterinary Biologics. Dow AgroSciences operates brand names such as

Sentricon The Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System is a subterranean termite pest control product developed and manufactured by Dow AgroSciences. It was introduced in 1995 as a termite baiting system and an alternative to liquid termicide soil barrie ...

, Vikane, Mycogen®, SmartStax®, Enlist™, Pfister Seed®, PhytoGen®, Prairie Brand Seed®, Alforex Seeds®, Profume, Dairyland Seed®, and Brodbeck Seed®. Dow AgroSciences also produces Omega-9 canola and sunflower oils. In 2017, the

merged into DowDuPont and in April 2019, the company's parent,

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was separated into a

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via a

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. The Dow AgroSciences business unit remained with DowDuPont and was spun off into Corteva Inc, on June 3, 2019. In October 2011, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a biotech specialist at

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had pleaded guilty to stealing information from

and Dow AgroSciences. Kexue Huang, a Chinese national, was discovered to be passing information back to China from Dow for at least 3 years, from 2007 to 2010. Dow AgroSciences unit was divested to be part of a new company Corteva.

China

In 2014, Dow AgroSciences received the registration of Arylex's active ingredient (Halauxifen-

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) from the Chinese Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA)."China approves Quelex™ the first herbicide with Arylex™ Active"
AgroPages Apr. 28, 2014, Retrieved May 12th, 2014. In the United States, Dow AgoSciences'

Enlist Weed Control System The Enlist Weed Control System is an agricultural system that includes seeds for genetically modified crops that are resistant to Enlist (a broadleaf herbicide with two active agents, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate) and the ...

was approved by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the

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(EPA) in 2014. Dow had submitted Enlist Corn for Chinese regulatory approval in 2011 and Enlist Soybean in 2012. As of 2017, even though 70 months have passed, approval is still being delayed by China's comparable regulatory agency, China's National Biosafety Committee (NBC). This has affected marketing, sales, and distribution of these products in the United States.

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