Safe use of treated seed

With the use of treated seed you must observe precautions for your own safety and the protection of the environment. On this page you find more information about these precautions.

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.
• The seed coating shall only be performed in professional seed treatment facilities. Those facilities must apply the best available techniques in order to ensure that the release of dust during application to the seed, storage and transport can be minimised.

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

• Adequate seed drilling equipment shall be used to ensure a high degree of incorporation in soil, minimisation of spillage and minimisation of dust emission.
• Sow at the recommended seeding rate.
• To protect birds and mammals, treated seeds must be covered by soil, also at row ends.

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.

Euroseeds

These precautions are prepared by Euroseeds, www.euroseeds.eu