With the growing population across the globe, the need for enhanced effectiveness of modern agriculture industry is surging with increased focus on sustainability. In crop protection product development, we are not only working diligently to deliver products and solutions with desired stability requirements, efficacy performance, application characteristics, but also are proactively engaging methodologies to include predictive safety assessment early in the process to guide the product design and development. With the combined considerations, we are offering formulated products with minimized impact on both applicator safety and environmental footprint, enhancing the overall sustainability attributes.  We are breaking down into individual steps of formulation development with the predictive safety assessment. At the co-formulant selection step, we have thorough analysis on the registration status, mammalian toxicology, ecotoxicology and environmental fate attributes of the co-formulants, to have the most responsible selection of co-formulants to start with. In formulation development, we proactively engage in-silico, in-vitro, and in-vivo assessments to evaluate mammalian toxicity and ecotoxicity profiles of the formulation mixtures as early as possible. The assessment at individual co-formulant selection step and formulation mixture step are combined to characterize the sustainability profile of the formulations and enable predictive safety guided product development.

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