Dow AgroSciences

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was a wholly owned

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of the

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specializing in not only agricultural chemicals such as

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s, but also

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s and

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solutions. The company was based in

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, in the

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. On 31 January 2006, Dow AgroSciences announced that it had received regulatory approval for the world's first plant-cell-produced vaccine against Newcastle disease virus from

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Center for Veterinary Biologics. Dow AgroSciences operates brand names such as Sentricon, Vikane, Mycogen®, SmartStax®, Enlist™, Pfister Seed®, PhytoGen®, Prairie Brand Seed®, Alforex Seeds®, Profume, Dairyland Seed®, and Brodbeck Seed®. Dow AgroSciences also produces Omega-9 canola and sunflower oils. In 2017, the

merged into DowDuPont and in April 2019, the company's parent, Dow Inc. was separated into a

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via a

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. The Dow AgroSciences business unit remained with DowDuPont and was spun off into Corteva Inc, on June 3, 2019. In October 2011, the

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announced that a biotech specialist at

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had pleaded guilty to stealing information from

and Dow AgroSciences. Kexue Huang, a Chinese national, was discovered to be passing information back to China from Dow for at least 3 years, from 2007 to 2010. Dow AgroSciences unit was divested to be part of a new company

Corteva Corteva, Inc. (also known as Corteva Agriscience), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a producer of products for seed and crop protection. The company produces herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and biologicals (natural herbicides) tha ...

China

In 2014, Dow AgroSciences received the registration of Arylex's active ingredient (Halauxifen-

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) from the Chinese Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA)."China approves Quelex™ the first herbicide with Arylex™ Active"
AgroPages Apr. 28, 2014, Retrieved May 12th, 2014. In the United States, Dow AgoSciences' Enlist Weed Control System was approved by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2014. Dow had submitted Enlist Corn for Chinese regulatory approval in 2011 and Enlist Soybean in 2012. As of 2017, even though 70 months have passed, approval is still being delayed by China's comparable regulatory agency, China's National Biosafety Committee (NBC). This has affected marketing, sales, and distribution of these products in the United States.

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