Syngenta Receives Chinese Import Approval for Agrisure Viptera® Corn Trait

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Press release: Syngenta Receives Chinese Import Approval for Agrisure Viptera® Corn Trait. Syngenta, Dec 22, 2014.
www.syngenta.com/global/corporat ... s/Pages/141222.aspx

Quote:

"The approval covers corn grain and processing byproducts, such as dried distillers grains (DDGs), for food and feed use.

"Agrisure Viptera® has been approved for cultivation in the USA since 2010 and has also been approved for cultivation in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay.

"In addition to China, Agrisure Viptera® has been approved for import into Australia/New Zealand, Belarus, the European Union, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Note:
(a) Company History. Syngenta, undated.
www.syngenta.com/global/corporat ... ompany-history.aspx
(i) Stating at the bottom of the page (which lists events latest first):

roots: Geigy (founded in 1758 by Johann Rudolf Geigy-Gemuseus), Sandoz (1876 by Alfred Kern and Edouard Sandoz), Ciba (1884, acronym of German-language company name)

(ii) In 2000 "Novartis and AstraZeneca merge their agribusinesses to form Syngenta" whose name is explained in 2001 (likely the year the name was picked).

(b) Agrisure Viptera™ 3111 Trait Stack. Syngenta, undated
www3.syngenta.com/country/us/SiteCollectionDocuments/FINAL_AgVipBrochure_031511.pdf
(insect control against 14: European corn borer, Southwestern corn borer, Southern cornstalk borer, corn earworm, Fall armyworm, beet armyworm, black cutworm, Western bean cutworm, Sugarcane borer, Western corn rootworm, Northern corn rootworm, common stalk borer, Dingy cutworm; view the graphic titled "Season-Long Insect Control with the Agrisure Viptera™ 3111 Trait Stack")
(i) In the graphic there are both "ECB1" and "ECB2"--where ECB stands for "European corn borer."
(ii) ECB 1 and 2 can easily be understood with

The European Corn Borer. Iowa State University, undated
www.ent.iastate.edu/pest/cornborer/insect/lifecycle
(first-generation moth lays eggs in June, and second-generation moth lays eggs in August, with larvae of the latter overwintering to become first-generation moth of the following year)