Withdrawn fungicides
Products have been grouped alphabetically by active ingredient.
Active ingredient Carbendazim
Brand name(s) Doff Plant Disease Control, Spotless
Main use Various diseases
Last date of use 30.6.03
Active ingredient Copper oxychloride
Brand name(s) Bayer Garden Fruit and Vegetable Disease Control
Main use For the control of celery leaf spot, peach leaf curl, potato blight, tomato blight, apple and pear canker, bacterial canker of plums and cherries, rust on currants and gooseberries, cane spot on raspberries and loganberries. Prevents damping-off and foot rot of seedlings of edible and ornamental garden plants.
Last date of use 30.11.15
Active ingredient Copper sulphate
Brand name(s) Cheshunt compound
Main use Damping off in seedlings
Last date of use 30.11.11
Active ingredient Copper sulphate plus hydrated lime (Bordeaux mixture)
Brand name(s) Vitax Bordeaux mixture
Main use Controls blight on potato and tomato; celery leaf spot; apple canker; bacterial canker on cherry and plum; peach leaf curl; black currant and gooseberry rust.
Last date of use 30.11.15
Active ingredient Difenoconazole
Brand name(s) Westland Plant Rescue Fungus Control (liquid concentrate and ready-to-use spray) (This active ingredient has not been withdrawn but the product/s containing it are no longer being marketed to home gardeners)
Main use For control of powdery mildew, rust and blackspot on roses and rust and powdery mildews on other ornamentals (liquid concentrate and ready-to-use spray) and also rust, powdery mildews and scabs on fruit and vegetables (liquid concentrate only).
Last date of use 30.6.15
Active ingredient Mancozeb
Brand name(s) Dithane (This active ingredient has not been withdrawn but the product/s containing it are no longer being marketed)
Main use Various diseases
Last date of use Not applicable
Active ingredient Penconazole
Brand name(s) Fungus Attack (This active ingredient has not been withdrawn but the product/s containing it are no longer being marketed)
Main use Various diseases on roses and ornamentals
Last date of use Not applicable
Active ingredient Sulphur (Sulphur candle)
Brand name(s) Growing Success Deadfast Greenhouse sulphur candle. Sulphur candles are still offered as cleaning agents rather than pesticides, and must be used as directed on the label
Main use A general glasshouse fumigant used to kill fungal spores on exposed surfaces
Last date of use 31.12.11
Active ingredient Sulphur (Green sulphur)
Brand name(s) Vitax green sulphur
Main use For control of powdery mildew on many fruit, ornamentals and vegetables and storage rots of bulbs, corms and tubers. Also useful for treating greenhouse staging, seed trays and boxes where moulds are likely to occur
Last date of use 31.12.11
Active ingredient Sulphur (Yellow sulphur)
Brand name(s) Vitax yellow sulphur
Main use For control of powdery mildew on many fruit, ornamentals and vegetables and storage rots of bulbs, corms and tubers. Also useful for treating greenhouse staging, seed trays and boxes where moulds are likely to occur
Last date for use 31.12.11
Active ingredient Tar oils and tar acids
Brand name(s) Armillatox and Jeyes Fluid (Armillatox and Jeyes Fluid remain on the market as disinfectants, but they no longer are permitted to be used for pesticidal purposes)
Main use Honey fungus and clubroot (Armillatox), soil sterilisation (Jeyes Fluid)
Last date for use 31.12.03
Active ingredient Thiophanate methyl
Brand name(s) Bio Liquid Club Root Control
Main use Clubroot
Last date for use 31.12.05
Active ingredient Triforine and bupirimate
Brand name(s) Rose Clear 2 (Rose Clear 2 has been replaced by a new product Roseclear Ultra with an increased range of uses and different active ingredients).
Main use Rose diseases
Last date for use 31.12.03