Five prominent farm groups are asking EPA to withdraw its request to a federal court to vacate the registration of Enlist Duo, a widely used Dow herbicide.

 

Last month, EPA asked the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit federal appeals court to cancel the registration and remand the matter to EPA for further review. The agency said one of its scientists had come across a Dow patent application on the Internet that spoke of Enlist Duo's potential for “synergistic herbicidal weed control.” This was after EPA had approved Enlist Duo for use and found that the two ingredients mixed together were not more toxic than either compound used by itself.

 

The active ingredients are 2,4-D and glyphosate, two widely used - and controversial - herbicides.

 

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