Pyraclostrobin in the product Nufarm Aero Fungicide

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has before it an application from Nufarm Australia Ltd to extend the use of NUFARM AERO FUNGICIDE, containing the active ingredients pyraclostrobin and metiram at 50 and 550 g/kg respectively, to tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum, peppers, mangoes, and poppies. The use instructions for potatoes are to be amended to allow aerial as well as ground application. The product is a fungicide used for control of early and late blight in potatoes, early blight in tomatoes, capsicums, peppers and eggplant, anthracnose in mangoes, and downy mildew in poppies.