Regulations

• US EPA makes it easier to find information on pesticide registration review actions

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Regulations

  To increase transparency and ensure information is easily accessible, EPA has created a new web-based table of the most recent pesticide registration review act...

• Paraguay updates regulation for land transportation of agrochemicals

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The National Plant and Seed Quality and Health Service (SENAVE) updated regulations for the transport of active ingredients and formulated agrochemical products...

• 232 tariff announcement lauded by the Fertilizer Institute

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Fertilizer Institute (TFI)

  The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) President & CEO Chris Jahn lauded Friday's announcement by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on the removal of section ...

• Brazil Anvisa releases 2,4-D with application restrictions

  Date：May. 21, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency, the Anvisa, concluded the re-evaluation of 2,4-D and has decided to maintain the approval of the herbicide in the...

  Tags:2,4-D

• Brazil seeks China's OK for genetically modified sugarcane

  Date：May. 20, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Brazil’s agriculture minister will ask Chinese officials on Thursday to greenlight exports to the Asian nation of sugar made from genetically modified (GM) sug...

  Tags:GM cropSugarcane

• US EPA issues draft revised method for ESA pesticide assessments

  Date：May. 17, 2019 Category：Regulations

  On May 16, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was seeking comment on its Draft Revised Method for National Level Endangered ...

• US California jury hits Bayer with $2 billion award in Roundup cancer trial

  Date：May. 15, 2019 Category：Regulations

  A California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused their cancer, in the la...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties to increase output

  Date：May. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Nigeria approved two genetically modified varieties of cotton for use by the nation’s farmers to help boost supply to its textile industry and cut lint imports...

  Tags:GM cropCotton

• Brazil: Anvisa makes glyphosate unviable for small and medium producers

  Date：May. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The "public consultation" period proposed by Brazilian Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) regarding the new recommendations for use resulting from the...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• UK: Rothamsted GM field trials approved

  Date：May. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Defra has given Rothamsted permission to run a series of trials using genetically modified Camelina plants.

  Tags:GM crop

• Arctic Fuji apple receives FDA approval

  Date：May. 7, 2019 Category：Regulations

  May 2, Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.’s (OSF) newest nonbrowning Arctic apple variety, Arctic Fuji, completed the voluntary review process with the U.S. Food a...

  Tags:GM cropFruits and Vegetables

• US EPA clarified toxicology data requirements for antimicrobial pesticides used on food contact surfaces

  Date：May. 6, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. EPA issued a final rule clarifying data requirements for antimicrobial pesticides in 40 CFR Part 158 Subpart W (158W), making the registration process ...

• US EPA - Glyphosate Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision; Notice of availability

  Date：May. 6, 2019 Category：Regulations

  US EPA - Glyphosate Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision; Notice of availability

  Tags:Glyphosate

• New York bans chlorpyrifos

  Date：May. 3, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Legislators recently approved Senate bill S5343 and Assembly bill A2477B, which ban chlorpyrifos in New York. This is a major victory for children’s health and...

• U.S. EPA releases draft guidelines for plant regulators

  Date：May. 2, 2019 Category：Regulations

  United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)

  In recognition of the growing categories of products generally known as plant biostimulants, this draft document gives guidance on which products are (and are n...

• U.S. EPA reaffirms finding that glyphosate does not cause cancer

  Date：May. 1, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking an important step in the agency’s review of glyphosate. As part of this action, EPA continues to find ...

• EFSA consults on assessments of plant protection active substances containing stereoisomers

  Date：Apr. 30, 2019 Category：Regulations

  In response to a request from the European Commission, EFSA has developed a guidance document that provides the information necessary to perform the risk assess...

• European Commission proposes higher MRL for neonicotinoid insecticide in imported Canadian potatoes

  Date：Apr. 30, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission proposes to increase the maximum residue limit for clothianidin in the import of potatoes to the EU from 0.03 milligram to 0.3 milligram...

• India CIBRC 399th meeting approved 22 pesticide technical registrations

  Date：Apr. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Indian Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) approved 22 registrations of pesticide technical at the meeting of the Registration Com...

• EU Parliament calls for concrete regulations on endocrine-disrupting chemicals

  Date：Apr. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  On April 18, the European Parliament agreed on a landmark resolution on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by a large cross-party majority, in its final plen...

• EU proposes not to renew approval of methiocarb

  Date：Apr. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission has proposed non-renewal of the approval of methiocarb.

  Tags:Methiocarb

• US EPA approved tolerance exemption for lytic bacteriophage active against Xylella fastidiosa

  Date：Apr. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The US EPA has granted a tolerance exemption for residues of lytic bacteriophage active against Xylella fastidiosa in or on all food commodities when the bacter...

• Australian gene-editing rules adopt ‘middle ground’

  Date：Apr. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Australian government will not regulate the use of gene-editing techniques in plants, animals and human cell lines that do not introduce new genetic materia...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• 22 European business organisations ask the European Union for pro-innovation rules for plant breeding

  Date：Apr. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

  22 European business organisations jointly call upon member states and the EU Commission to initiate a legislative change that provides innovation-friendly rule...

• Belgium - Permit for CRISPR maize field trial that aims to measure climate stress

  Date：Apr. 23, 2019 Category：Regulations

  On April 12, 2019 VIB has been granted a permit for its field trial with maize plants that contain small surgical CRISPR-induced heritable changes. Obtaining th...

  Tags:MaizeGene Editing

• Nigeria: Seed producers groan under government indebtedness

  Date：Apr. 22, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Seed Entrepreneurs Association of Nigeria (SEEDAN) has expressed concern over the increasing indebtedness of the government to their members, insisting that the...

• Australia approves field trial for the University of Melbourne's GM wheat

  Date：Apr. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Australian Regulator has issued licence DIR 165 to the University of Melbourne, authorising the limited and controlled release (field trial) of wheat geneti...

  Tags:GM cropwheat

• Chlorpropham,Propisochlor and Prochloraz TCs got registration approvals at India CIBRC 398th meeting

  Date：Apr. 18, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Adama India Pvt. Ltd., for grant of registration for indigenous manufacture of the product Prochloraz Technical 95% w/w Min under section 9(3).

• Brazil Ag Ministry Releases Agrochemical Priority List

  Date：Apr. 17, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Supply (MAPA) released, in April, its new List of Priorities for Registration and Amendment of Agrochemicals...

• Canada to phase out three neonicotinoid pesticides over the next two to three years

  Date：Apr. 15, 2019 Category：Regulations

  In its final decision, published last Thursday, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency said certain uses of three neonicotinoid pesticides — clothi...

  Tags:ClothianidinImidaclopridThiamethoxam