Title: Is Temik coming back? | Farm Progress
Headings: Is Temik coming back?
Is Temik coming back?
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Content: Though impressive, 165 letters is a small drop in the big bucket compared to the volumes of reports generated by the EPA over the past 40 years citing the negative human health impacts from use and/or exposure to Temik. Puech is no stranger to bringing in controversial, yet much-needed products to the U.S. market. He was instrumental in bringing into the U.S. glyphosate made in China. In recent years a number of glyphosate-containing herbicides have become available to U.S. farmers, providing a lower cost alternative to Roundup — the original glyphosate herbicide marketed in the U.S.
Puech is likewise no stranger to Temik. He worked for a number of years for Union Carbide, the company that originally brought Temik into the marketplace in the 1970s. A turnaround by the EPA on their long-standing aldicarb vendetta may prove to be a classic question of being a blessing or a curse. Once Bayer announced plans to phase out Temik, it seems the whole agriculture chemical industry began ramping up old and new technology for a replacement. Getting a new product through development and Federal clearance is a multi-million dollar process. Companies weren’t quick to make that investment to replace a product that had proved effective and relatively inexpensive over such a long period of time. Searching for replacements
Now that Temik is in reality gone, companies are looking at chemistries that had been discarded, because the cost of developing them was too high and the expectations of profit too low as long as Temik was available.