Treated seed safe use advice

The protection of these seeds is performed according to an agreed industry quality standard.

For your own safety and to protect the environment, the following precautions must be observed:

In general

Do not use treated seed for human or animal consumption or for processing.

Keep out of reach of children, livestock and wildlife.

Handle seed packages carefully.

Avoid contact with skin and respiratory tract and wear suitable protective equipment during seed handling and equipment cleaning.

Wash hands and exposed skin before meals and after work.

Remove any seed spillages.

Keep treated seeds away from surface water.

Before sowing

When opening seed bags and during, filling or emptying of the drilling machine, avoid dust exposure.

Avoid transfer of dust from the seed bag into the sowing machine.

Do not treat the previously treated seeds with additional products.

At sowing outdoors

When using a pneumatic drilling machine, dust from treated seeds should be directed to the soil surface or into the soil through deflectors.

Sow at the recommended seeding rate. To protect birds and mammals, treated seeds must be covered by soil, also at row ends.

Please take extra precautions if seed is treated with FORCE ST approval. FORCE ST contains Tefluthrin. For further details please refer to relevant EAMU notice.

Force trademark is the property of Syngenta Group Company

After sowing

Do not leave empty bags or left-over treated seed in the environment.

Dispose of them according to local legislation.

Ensure that left over treated seed is returned to their original bags and do not use empty seed bags for other purposes.