Re: [compost_tea] Scary stuff

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:55:10 -0800 (PST)
There is nothing more frighting than the gov being
involved in controling ACT.
--- Tom Jaszewski <tom_at_livesoil.com> wrote:

>
> Pesticides Safety Directorate
> UK
>
>
>
>
> 22 October 2003
>
> PSD wrote to you 9 October 2001 (All Approval
> Holders Letter (AAHL)
> 18/2001) regarding `Nutritional' Amenity products.
> Since then, we
> have seen many other products claiming to increase
> plants' resistance
> to pests or disease by nutritional means. This
> guidance replaces AAHL
> 18/2001, and applies to all products claiming
> increased disease
> resistance via nutritional means, not solely those
> marketed for
> amenity use.
>
> PSD bases its decisions on whether a product falls
> within the scope
> of the Control of Pesticides Regulations (as
> amended) or the Plant
> Protection Product Regulations (as amended) on 3
> main criteria: the
> product's active ingredients; its mode of action;
> and the intended
> purpose of the product, as detailed in
> label/promotional literature
> claims.
>
> For example, general claims to increase resistance
> to disease by the
> following means are outside the scope of the
> pesticides legislation:
>
> By ensuring adequate nutrition;
> By giving resistance to a disorder which is related
> to nutrient
> deficiencies (such as internal rust spot in
> potatoes);
> By increasing populations of beneficial soil
> micro-organisms, thereby
> outcompeting soil-borne diseases.
> However, PSD has recently seen examples of products
> claiming to
> enhance plants' resistance to specific diseases
> (such as Botrytis)
> which, in PSD's experience, cannot be prevented by
> adequate nutrition
> alone. Both plants with nutrient deficiencies and
> healthy plants with
> all the necessary nutrients are likely to be
> susceptible. PSD
> therefore takes the view that products claiming to
> give increased
> plants' resistance to these types of diseases are
> effectively plant
> protection products, and are within the scope of the
> pesticides
> legislation.
>
> Products based on recognised pesticide active
> substances, and/or
> working by exerting a direct control on pests or
> diseases, will also
> be regarded as being within the scope of United
> Kingdom (UK)
> pesticides legislation regardless of label or
> product literature
> claims. Conversely, making claims of direct disease
> control would
> bring a product otherwise outside the scope of UK
> pesticides
> legislation within its remit.
>
> Please also note that while products acting purely
> as nutrients are
> outside the scope of the pesticides legislation,
> products influencing
> the life processes of plants (for example, growth
> regulators) are
> within scope.
>

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Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not

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