We urge the European Council, European Parliament, and the Commission to adopt the proposed biocontrol definition without revision, explicitly preserving the criterion “substances of biological origin or produced synthetically that are functionally identical and structurally similar to them”.

For the third consecutive year, Greek authorities have granted farmers emergency access to Vestaron’s novel bioinsecticide, SPEAR® LEP, to help protect high-value tomato crops from devastating infestations of tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved BASIN™ bioinsecticide for outdoor agricultural use. This approval expands BASIN’s label beyond indoor and greenhouse crops, giving growers a powerful new tool to manage pests across high-value crops.