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China approved 31 pesticide ais registrations in July 2013

The Chinese Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has approved the registrations of 31 pesticide active ingredients in July, 2013 (excluding the renewal of registration), covering 11 herbicides, 10 insecticides, 6 fungicides , 2 plant growth regulators, 1 virucide and 1 biopesticide.

In terms of registration type, there are 28 formal registrations (5-year validity), 5 of them only for export, the remained 3 belong to interim registration (1-year validity).

Furthermore, Lier Chemical received the registration approval for plant elicitor Methiadinil ( 96%TC), Jiangxi YiChun XinLong Chemical received the registration approval for a fungicide Mamestra brassicae multiple NPV (20 billion PIB/g TC), both of which were registered in China for the first time.

Common name	Formulation	Common name	Formulation
Herbicide (11)		Fungicide (6)
diflubenzuron	95% TC（3）	azoxystrobin	98% TC
2,4-D*	97% TC	benomyl *	97%TC
2,4-D-2-ethylhexyl	96% TC	difenoconazole	95%TC
diquat	40% TK	thifluzamide	98%TC
mesotrione	97.5% TC	Methiadinil	96%TC
metamitron*	98%TC	clomazone	96%TC
metribuzin	95% TC	Insecticide (10)
thifensulfuron	95% TC	thiamethoxam	98% TC（5）
triclopyr-butotyl *	97.3%TC	indoxacarb	71.2%TK（2）
PGR (2)		indoxacarb	71% TK
4-indol-3-ylbutyric acid	98% TC	indoxacarb	70.5% TK
mepiquat chloride*	98% TC	pymetrozine	98.5%TC
Virucide（1）		Biopesticide（1）
dufulin	98% TC	MbNPV	20Billion PIB/gTC
Source: ICAMA * Only for export; TC:Technical Material ; TK: Technical Concentrate