Regulations

• China to approve further domestic GMO corn, soy crop varieties

  Date：Jan. 15, 2021 Category：Regulations

  China said on Monday it was set to approve the safety of another genetically modified (GMO) corn variety and a GMO soybean, both produced by Beijing Dabeinong T...

• US EPA: Comment period extended for glyphosate draft biological evaluation

  Date：Jan. 13, 2021 Category：Regulations

  US EPA is extending the public comment period on the draft biological evaluation for glyphosate to give stakeholders more time to review and comment. The curren...

• GRDC praises move to import fall armyworm virus

  Date：Jan. 13, 2021 Category：Regulations

  AgBiTech Pty Ltd

  A decision to import a biological control agent into Australia as part of research into fall armyworm (FAW) control options has been welcomed by the Grains Rese...

• US Federal Court rejects bid by EPA, pesticide industry to keep bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor on market despite risks to endangered species

  Date：Jan. 13, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s request to allow farmers to continue using the bee-killi...

• Pesticide program update: US EPA takes aggressive actions against citrus greening while maintaining public health and environmental protections

  Date：Jan. 13, 2021 Category：Regulations

  EPA announces two actions to help protect America’s citrus industry from citrus greening and citrus canker disease. In Florida alone, 90 percent of citrus acre...

• UK: Statement on the decision to issue – with strict conditions – emergency authorisation to use a product containing a neonicotinoid to treat sugar beet seed in 2021

  Date：Jan. 12, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The UK government has decided to grant an application for emergency authorisation to allow use of a product containing the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the tr...

• UK: government breaks promise to maintain ban on bee-harming pesticide

  Date：Jan. 11, 2021 Category：Regulations

  A pesticide believed to kill bees has been authorised for use in England despite an EU-wide ban two years ago and an explicit government pledge to keep the rest...

• US EPA proposes to codify certain pesticide product performance requirements to improve clarity and reduce burden

  Date：Jan. 8, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday proposed to codify product performance data requirements for products claiming efficacy against certain ...

• Gowan’s Phosmet determined acceptable in Canada with additional risk mitigation measures

  Date：Jan. 8, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Gowan Company, LLC

  Gowan announces that on October 30, 2020, Health Canada announced its plan to approve continued registration of the active ingredient Phosmet and associated pro...

• UK: Corteva's Vydate will not be re-authorised, Defra confirms

  Date：Jan. 7, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Corteva Agriscience

  The government has decided not to re-authorise the use of the pesticide Vydate in a development slammed as 'unacceptable' by the NFU. The pesticide, manufacture...

• US EPA proposes registration of picarbutrazox, a new fungicide active

  Date：Jan. 7, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to register the new active ingredient picarbutrazox, which represents a new tool for managing resist...

• India CIBRC 424th meeting: 35 TC and 38 Formulation registrations got approved，Bio-products almost half

  Date：Jan. 6, 2021 Category：Regulations

  At the meeting, 35 registration of pesticide technical and 38 formulation products, including 16 herbicides, 13 insecticides/acaricides, 7 fungicides, 2 plant g...

• New construction or expansion of chemical facilities prohibited within 1km of China’s Yangtze river from March 2021

  Date：Jan. 5, 2021 Category：Regulations

  On 26th December, 2020, at the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of China, the Yangtze Protection Law of the People'...

• Mexico: AMLO announces GMO corn ban; farm lobby critical, organic growers call it a victory

  Date：Jan. 5, 2021 Category：Regulations

  A federal government decision to ban genetically modified corn has been slammed by Mexico’s largest agricultural lobby but praised by organic farmers who have ...

• Tang Renjian appointed Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs by Standing Committee of National People's Congress

  Date：Jan. 5, 2021 Category：Regulations

  According to the Xinhua News Agency, during the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, Tang Renjian was voted, on 26th D...

• Brazil: 62 priority products for cotton cultivation approved in recent years

  Date：Jan. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The cotton production sector celebrated the positive outcomes achieved in terms of registering priority agrochemical products for protecting Brazilian crops. Ac...

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• Senasa, Casafe launch guide for controlling locusts with agrochemicals in Argentina

  Date：Jan. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  A guide of recommendations for controlling locusts with agrochemical products was launched this month in Argentina. The National Service for Agri-food Health an...

• Pakistan rolls out its first drone policy, seeks help from allies China & Turkey

  Date：Jan. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The drone policy by Pakistan with the assistance of China and Turkey are seen as a game-changing step in encouraging the private sector to boost the country’s ...

• China to promote crop production, farmland protection in 2021: minister

  Date：Jan. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  China will secure crop production, develop the seed industry and strengthen farmland protection in 2021 to promote rural vitalization and accelerate agricultura...

• US: Dicamba settlement claims period begins

  Date：Dec. 31, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Attorneys for farmers announced the execution of a $400 million settlement agreement designed to compensate farmers for yield losses resulting from dicamba dama...

• USDA: Amendments to the pale cyst nematode regulations

  Date：Dec. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the domestic quarantine regulations for pale cyst nematode by adding procedures that allow person...

• The 7 secrets to success in field trials for crop residue analysis

  Date：Dec. 29, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Covance Laboratories

  Residues of plant protection products (PPPs) are inevitably present in or on food, even when they are applied in line with good agricultural practice. The upper...

• Covance releases report on regulatory revolution in biopesticides

  Date：Dec. 29, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Covance Laboratories

  The growth of global biopesticide market is much higher than conventional pesticides nowadays. The slowdown in the conventional pesticide market may result from...

• Thailand: Request to lift ban on paraquat and chlorpyrifos refused

  Date：Dec. 28, 2020 Category：Regulations

  A request to extend the use of the herbicide paraquat and pesticide chlorpyrifos by pro-chemical alliances was rejected by the National Hazardous Substances Com...

• Farmworkers and conservationists ask court to remove Monsanto's Roundup from the market

  Date：Dec. 28, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On 17 December, the Center for Food Safety filed the opening arguments and evidence in its litigation challenging the U.S. EPA re-approval of glyphosate, best k...

• California seeks to block Trump pesticide rule

  Date：Dec. 28, 2020 Category：Regulations

  California and four other states are suing to block a Trump administration rule that will limit pesticide application exclusion zones to a farmer's property.

• US: Illinois Department of Agriculture announces dicamba decision for 2021 growing season

  Date：Dec. 25, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) has registered the certain Dicamba products for the use on soybeans for the 2021 growing season: XtendiMax with Va...

• PhilRice's first heat-tolerant rice to be approved for release in The Philippines

  Date：Dec. 25, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The country’s first high temperature-tolerant rice varieties developed by the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) will s...

• Govt. invites comments conforming CIB&RC as lndian Authority Controlling Registration/ Regulatory Affairs concerning pesticides used in agriculture, public health to facilitate Exports

  Date：Dec. 24, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Sect. CIB&RC on Dec. 21st uploaded a draft circular to declare the CIB&RC as the country’s National Authority Controlling Registration/Regulatory Affairs f...

• Argentina: Group of 90 Argentine organizations proposes new law on agrochemical application

  Date：Dec. 24, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Network of Good Agricultural Practices (BPA) announced that it is preparing a new bill to order, regulate and control the use of pesticides in Argentina. It...