The world’s first registration of iodomethane, an alternative to timber fumigant methyl bromide which is due to be phased out in 2005, has been made in Japan.
Tokyo-based Arysta LifeScience Corporation registered the fumigant for broad-spectrum insect control on imported timber.
Iodomethane has been developed by the Methyl Bromide Alternative Urgent Development Programme supported by the Japanese government. The registration is the result of a collaboration involving the Japan Fumigation Association and Yokohama Plant Protection Station.
