Browse by active constituent
See herbicide chemistries carried by several current products from different registration holders, then open one into the exact-use finder.
Browse the actives →Compare what is registered for the job.
Name the agricultural chemical you use and pick its exact registered crop or situation and target. BecSpec shows every other current APVMA product registered for that same job, separated by how closely the declared chemistry matches. Where independent evidence has been reviewed, the result can also show mode-of-action context and Australian resistance findings — as separate evidence, never as an inferred recommendation.
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Which product are you using?
Search by product name, registration holder or active constituent. Currently registered agricultural herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, miticides, molluscicides, nematicides, plant and growth regulators, algicides, vertebrate poisons and mixed-function products.
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What are you using it for?
Only uses on this product's own current registration are listed. Pick the exact host or situation and target you need covered — an alternative is only relevant to this comparison if it is registered for the same job.
What this comparison does and does not establish
Browse crop × target comparisons
A deliberately gated index of crop and target combinations with enough product, holder and chemistry diversity to support a useful comparison page.
Browse crop × target →MoA & resistance evidence
How BecSpec attaches reviewed herbicide, fungicide and insecticide mode-of-action context and Australian resistance evidence without inheriting claims across products or groups.
Read the evidence method →How matching works
The three alternative tiers, canonical active rules, and the salts and esters BecSpec deliberately refuses to merge.
Read the method →Data & sources
The APVMA PubCRIS spine plus the separately rights-gated evidence layers used for MoA, resistance and bounded application guidance.
See the sources →Limitations
Coverage of MoA, resistance and label-derived application detail is selective. Missing evidence stays unknown, and every product still requires its own label check.
Read the limits →Read the label
Every result is a starting point for a current label check, never a replacement for one. Product rates and directions remain exact-product and exact-use facts.
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Common questions
What the register and evidence layers can tell you
Is a generic the same as the original product?
Not automatically. Two products can carry the same active constituent at the same strength in the same formulation type and still differ in co-formulants and label directions. BecSpec can establish when the declared registration fields match; it does not turn that into an interchangeability claim.
Can the finder tell me the mode of action?
Sometimes, through separate reviewed enrichment. Herbicide, fungicide and insecticide MoA context is attached only where the relevant identity/evidence gate has cleared it. The alternative tier itself does not prove that two different chemistries have different modes of action, and the MoA overlay never changes the tier.
Does a resistance card mean the product will fail?
No. Resistance evidence is evidence about defined Australian populations, actives and targets under the cited study conditions. It is attached narrowly to exact current product/use contexts where the evidence join is safe. Missing evidence does not mean susceptibility, and an occurrence finding is not a paddock-level prediction.
Why does an alternative cover only part of my product's label?
Registration is granted use by use. Two products can have identical declared chemistry and both be approved for wheat and annual ryegrass while one is registered across many more host and target combinations. BecSpec therefore shows selected-use relevance and whole-label overlap as different questions.
Does this tell me who sells it, or what it costs?
No. PubCRIS records the company holding the registration, which is not necessarily the manufacturer and is never the reseller. There is no stockist, availability or price information in this dataset.
Why are glyphosate salts treated as different actives?
Because the APVMA registers the constituent forms separately. Glyphosate isopropylamine salt, potassium salt and mono-ammonium salt stay distinct in product matching, as do 2,4-D and MCPA esters. A separate reviewed evidence lookup may sometimes map a form to a parent concept for MoA or resistance evidence without rewriting the product's registered chemistry.