FMC Corporation and the Technical University of Denmark receive grant from the Danish Innovation Funds to co-develop innovative biological solutions
DENMARK, May 3, 2021 – FMC Corporation, a leading agricultural sciences company, and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), an institutional leader in biotechnology research, received a 26 million Danish kroner grant from the Danish Innovation Funds for their Smarter AgroBiological Screening
(SABS) project. The grant provides funds to improve technologies for discovering and developing microbe-based biological crop protection solutions.
Environmental Impact of Illegal Pesticides
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes an illegal pesticide. However, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Best Practice Guidance (BPG) to Identify Illegal Trade of Pesticides has attempted to define an illegal pesticide as "any pesticide product that is not legal in the country where it is placed on the market.”
Such a broad definition would generally include: