Zineb

The active ingredient is no longer contained in any registered pesticide products ... "cancelled.".

/Formerly used in US/ as fungicide on fruits, vegetables, field crops and a large number of ornamental plants and for treatment of many seeds. In paints and on fabrics, leather, linen, painted surfaces, surfaces to be painted and paper, plastics and wood surfaces.

Control of downy mildews in vines, hops, lettuce, onions, spinach, brassicas, oilseed, rape, tobacco, and ornamentals, rusts in currants, berry fruit, plums, vegetables, and ornamentals (especially carnations and chrysanthemums), red fire disease on vines, potato and tomato blights, leaf spot diseases on currants, berry fruit, olives, and celery, anthracnose on beans, vines, and citrus fruit, scab on apples and pears, shot-hole on stone fruit, Cercospora on bananas, tulip fire, Botrytis, needle cast in forestry, etc.

Agricultural fungicide.

Reaction of ethylene diamine and carbon disulfide in the presence of alkali, followed by addition of zinc sulfate to precipitate Zineb

Zineb is produced by mixing ethylenebis(dithiocarbamate) with an aqueous zinc sulfate solution, or by reaction of Nabam with a solution of zinc salts.

Reaction of sodium ethylenebisdithiocarbamate with zinc sulfate or other zinc salts. In practical application as a fungicide these reactants are mixed in the presence of lime, the zineb is not formed until after reaction of the carbon dioxide of the air with the film of the other chemicals on the leaf or fruit.