Regulations

• Peru's Senasa promotes biopesticides and grants ‘Green Certificate’

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (Senasa) is promoting the use of biological control agents ACB to make pest control more sustainable in prioritized...

• UK’s Fera adds new pests to the Plant Health Risk Register

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Fera has recently added a number of pests to the Risk Register. All of these pests were added due to their listing in the new Plant Health legislation which cam...

• Ninth Circuit Judges Deny BASF’s Request To Recall Its Dicamba Ruling

  Date：Jun. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  BASF Crop Protection USA

  A panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit court has denied the motion by BASF to stay and recall the June 3rd mandate vacating BASF’s Engenia herbicide and two ot...

• Australia to approve new active constituent geraniol and Enden’s Novellus Fungicide; more products from FMC, Belchim, AgriNova gains registration

  Date：Jun. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has before it an application for the approval of a new fungicide active constituent, gerani...

• Mexico announces phase-out and ban on glyphosate herbicides

  Date：Jun. 29, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico’s Environment Ministry, has announced that glyphosate-based herbicides will be phased o...

• USDA/APHIS announces new plant biotechnology regulations

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Regulations

  New plant biotechnology regulations announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS, are a breakthrough for ut...

• US EPA to host webinars on assessing risks to bees from pesticides

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Regulations

  EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs will host a two-part webinar series on July 21st and 28th as part of its series dedicated to pollinator health and habitat. ...

• National Corn Growers Association in the US responds to glyphosate developments

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) responds to two significant legal developments concerning glyphosate that have occurred this week.

• India’s three new agricultural ordinances will weaken state finances – and shortchange farmers

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Three ordinances approved at a cabinet meeting on June 3 were hailed as landmark decisions that would benefit Indian farmers and transform the agricultural sect...

• NAWG responds to Bayer's announcement to settle pending Roundup lawsuits

  Date：Jun. 26, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Bayer recently issued a statement announcing that it has decided to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits around the company's Roundup products. NAWG President and ...

• Canada proposes MRLs for azoxystrobin residues in berry fruits

  Date：Jun. 25, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On June 3, 2020, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulation Agency (PMRA) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the proposed MRLs for Azoxystrobin a...

• New Pesticide Research Report calls for sweeping policy changes in the US

  Date：Jun. 24, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI), an organization of physicians and public health professionals, is releasing its pesticide research report calling for...

• Bayer wins ruling blocking California’s Roundup warning

  Date：Jun. 23, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Bayer CropScience U.S.

  Bayer AG’s Roundup won’t require a label in California warning consumers that a chemical in the weed killer is known to cause cancer. A federal judge in Sacra...

• U.S., Brazil protest Thailand's pesticide ban over impact on wheat, soy exports

  Date：Jun. 22, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The United States and Brazil lodged separate protests with Thailand over its ban on two farm chemicals earlier this month, documents reviewed by Reuters show, s...

• Ban on toxic mercury looms in sugar cane farming, but Australia still has a way to go

  Date：Jun. 22, 2020 Category：Regulations

  This month, federal authorities finally announced an upcoming ban on mercury-containing pesticide in Australia. Australia is one of the last countries in the wo...

• Colombia to resume fumigating its coca fields with glyphosate

  Date：Jun. 18, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Colombia is about to dust off a controversial weapon from the bloodiest period of the South American nation's decades-long battle against cocaine production: ae...

• Calls for tighter restrictions on import of pesticide-laden produce in Cambodia

  Date：Jun. 16, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community has expressed its support to the governmental ban on the import of pesticide-laden produce. Its support came with th...

• New lawsuit targets Corteva's Enlist Duo herbicide

  Date：Jun. 15, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Corteva Agriscience

  With a decision that's still reverberating through farm country, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated three over-the-top dicamba registration...

• China's ICAMA issues regulations on the registration of export-only pesticides to promote pesticide export

  Date：Jun. 12, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Industry voices from home and abroad generally believe that this regulation will be beneficial to China's pesticide exports, and will also help overseas pestici...

• Yutian Analysis | A complete collection of banned pesticides products

  Date：Jun. 12, 2020 Category：Regulations

  This pesticides ban list is based on , supplement by updated news and announcement from AgroPages and other official parties. If there are...

• EU urged to act against pesticides to fight insect decline

  Date：Jun. 11, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Environmental groups are urging the European Union to take drastic action to protect insects, saying in a report Tuesday that more than 40% of the world’s inse...

• MEPs back impact assessment for farmers in case of glyphosate reduction

  Date：Jun. 11, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Any potential reduction of glyphosate in the EU should be preceded by an impact assessment exploring the consequence for farmers, EU lawmakers said during a rec...

• Canada to approve Sumitomo’s Fenpropathrin Technical and Danitol EC Spray

  Date：Jun. 11, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, is proposing registration for the sale and use o...

• US EPA issues cancellation order for 3 dicamba products; limited existing stocks provision included

  Date：Jun. 11, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On Monday, June 8, 2020, the U.S. EPA issued its final cancellation order for three dicamba products: Xtendimax with Vaporgrip Technology, Engenia, and FeXapan.

• Why a federal court vacated EPA registration of three dicamba herbicides

  Date：Jun. 10, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Weed control plans for dicamba-tolerant soybeans were dashed on June 3 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated conditional registrations fo...

• Analysis: USDA’s final biotech rule explained

  Date：Jun. 9, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The long-awaited updates from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to its genetically engineered (GE) organism regulation have been issued. This f...

• Inspection on safety started in chemical manufacturing enterprises in 18 provinces in China

  Date：Jun. 9, 2020 Category：Regulations

  In May 2020, it is announced in the notice issued by Office of the State Council Work Safety Committee and Ministry of Emergency Management that as June of this...

• Bayer, UK farmers appeal EU neonicotinoid insecticide ban, citing lack of scientific evidence

  Date：Jun. 9, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Lawyers acting on behalf of the National Farmers Union are in court battling to overturn a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been linked to harming be...

• US EPA responds to Ninth Circuit Vacatur of dicamba registrations

  Date：Jun. 9, 2020 Category：Regulations

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released the statement on the Ninth Circuit Vacatur of dicamba registrations.

• Agweek: North Dakota ag commissioner issues permit to use dicamba on soybeans

  Date：Jun. 8, 2020 Category：Regulations

  North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring on Friday, June 5, issued his own state label to allow farmers to spray three dicamba herbicide formulations...