A separate product category under the EU Fertilizer Regulation: a fertilizer product that stimulates plant nutritional processes regardless of its nutrient content. Legally distinct from a plant fortifier.
The term is very often confused with plant growth enhancers. In the EU, the two are clearly distinguished from one another: The EU Fertilizer Products Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 classifies plant biostimulants as a separate product group.
“A plant biostimulant is an EU fertilizer product intended to stimulate plant nutritional processes, regardless of the product’s nutrient content, with the sole aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant or the plant’s rhizosphere:
"Plant fortifier," on the other hand, is a German term that is now more closely associated with the Plant Protection Act.
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