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Consumer Product Safety

Incident Report

Subform I: General Information

1. Report Type.

New incident report

Incident Report Number: 2020-3903

2. Registrant Information.

Registrant Reference Number: x

Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): x

Address: x

City: x

Prov / State: x

Country: x

Postal Code: X

3. Select the appropriate subform(s) for the incident.

Packaging Failure

4. Date registrant was first informed of the incident.

5. Location of incident.

Country: CANADA

Prov / State: ALBERTA

6. Date incident was first observed.

20-JUL-20

Product Description

7. a) Provide the active ingredient and, if available, the registration number and product name (include all tank mixes). If the product is not registered provide a submission number.

Active(s)

PMRA Registration No. 30176      PMRA Submission No.       EPA Registration No.

Product Name: Tralkoxydim Herbicide

  • Active Ingredient(s)
    • TRALKOXYDIM

PMRA Registration No. 25341      PMRA Submission No.       EPA Registration No.

Product Name: Koril 235 Liquid Herbicide

  • Active Ingredient(s)
    • BROMOXYNIL

PMRA Registration No. 31303      PMRA Submission No.       EPA Registration No.

Product Name: Pixxaro

  • Active Ingredient(s)
    • FLUROXYPYR (PRESENT AS 1-METHYLHEPTYL ESTER)
    • HALAUXIFEN, PRESENT AS METHYL ESTER

7. b) Type of formulation.

Liquid

Application Information

8. Product was applied?

Yes

9. Application Rate.

10. Site pesticide was applied to (select all that apply).

Site: Agricultural-Outdoor/Agricole-extérieur

Préciser le type: barley

11. Provide any additional information regarding application (how it was applied, amount applied, the size of the area treated etc).

The following was reported: Producer (name) purchased Nufarm's Tralkoxydim herbicide for 617 acres through x in (city).This product was applied on barley at 6 leaf stage and covered about 500 acres of barley. It was mixed with Corteva's Pixarro.

To be determined by Registrant

12. In your opinion, was the product used according to the label instructions?

Unknown

Subform VI: Packaging Failure

1. What is the type of packaging that failed?

Other / Autre

specify labelling on plastic jugs and cardboard cases

2. Did packaging failure occur during?

Use of Product

3. Did packaging failure result in?

potential exposure

4. Describe how the packaging failed and the surrounding circumstances, including a description of the potential injury or exposure.

The following was reported: When they mixed it up to spray (it was mixed with Corteva's Pixarro), they noticed some of the cases had Tralkoxydim labels but the 8L jug inside the case were labeled with the product Koril 235 Liquid Herbicide Reg # 25341. The producer applied this product to barley not realizing this could be Tralkoxydim or Koril as he was reading the labeling on the cases. Beside the wrong label on the jugs and in a Tralkoxydim case, the producer could not clean his sprayer out due to a pastey substance found in the booms, tank and filters. It took the producer over eight hours to clean out the sprayer along with various tank cleaners and pressure washer. We do not know if the product was just wrongly labeled or there was the wrong product in the jugs and this could have caused the pastey substance in the spray tank, boom and screens.

For Registrant use only

5. Provide supplemental information here.