Pioneer Clears Status of Approvals for Herculex® RW Rootworm, Herculex XTRA
May 4, 2007| |
Pioneer Hi-Bred issued a clarifying statement on the status of approvals for Herculex® RW Rootworm and Herculex XTRA traits in the United States and in nine other countries. The Herculex® RW Rootworm Protection and the Herculex XTRA traits have full U.S. federal and all state regulatory approvals and have approval for import and for feed and food use in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, Korea, Mexico, Philippines and Taiwan. Both traits are available to growers in corn hybrids from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
"We wanted to issue this clarifying statement to avoid confusion. Herculex RW and Herculex XTRA traits have import approval in the key corn importing countries," said Dean Oestreich, Pioneer president and DuPont vice president and general manager.
Readers can access the press release at http://www.pioneer.com/web/site/portal/menuitem.bf5884140b13dd243cda47b2d10093a0/.
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