Mr. Brondeau earned both his Bachelor of Science degree and Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from INSA in Toulouse, France. He also holds a master's degree in Food Sciences from the University of Montpellier, France.

Mr. Brondeau, who also serves on the board of directors of Tyco Electronics, becomes the 11th director on the FMC Board. Mr. Walter and Mr. Brondeau will be the only non-independent directors.

FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world. The company operates its businesses in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals.

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Through the integration with the SAP software suite, The WERCS will access and share critical data required for creating and distributing globally compliant MSDS documents and labels. This will provide an enterprise-based, seamless approach toward efficient document creation.

"In our research, we found The WERCS software to be extremely user friendly and intuitive, and we were also impressed with their large and satisfied customer base," said Pat Nevrincean, corporate environmental manager for FMC. "It was also critical that we selected a partner that had proven experience integrating in an SAP environment. The WERCS demonstrated numerous success stories on this topic."

About FMC Corporation

FMC Corporation, with worldwide headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world and operates its businesses in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals. To learn more, please visit www.fmc.com.

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Established in 1984, The Wercs, Ltd. streamlines hazard communications and advances business process innovation through its material safety data sheet (MSDS) authoring solution, The WERCS(R) (Worldwide Environmental & Regulatory Compliance Solution). The company offers tools and services for MSDS authoring, as well as GHS, and REACH compliant solutions for all companies, regardless of size and geography. For more information on The Wercs, please call 1-800-572-6501 or visit www.thewercs.com.

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FMC believes strongly there is no question that carbofuran meets all safety standards. EPA itself admitted that there are no safety concerns with carbofuran residues in food, or in imported crops. EPA's only alleged concern is with drinking water, but the concerns are based on an incorrect assumption that 100 percent of crops are treated with carbofuran, when in most cases only 1 percent or less is treated. "Without exaggerated assumptions, carbofuran residues are well within safe levels," said Morelli.

FMC contends that current law clearly mandates that growers and registrants be provided a right to a timely and neutral hearing when there are obvious and genuine factual issues between EPA and those parties over safety of a pesticide. EPA has chosen to disregard the legal requirements, said Morelli.

EPA's decision to revoke all food tolerance is confusing to growers and others in the agricultural community as it circumvents the normal re-registration process under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). EPA has not taken action to cancel carbofuran registrations, which continue under FIFRA. Several major grower associations, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and all 50 Secretaries of State Departments of Agriculture have gone on record supporting the continued, but very limited use of carbofuran where there are no alternative products, such as in sunflowers and corn rootworm rescue.

"EPA remains closed-minded about mitigation measures, even though FMC proposals have clearly demonstrated how such mitigation is possible and indeed allow product use to meet the EPA safety standard even under the Agency's worse case assumptions," said Morelli.

FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world. The company operates its businesses in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals.

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FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world and operates its businesses in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals.

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