Regulations

• US Pesticide Registration Improvement Act Signed into Law

  Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018 (PRIA 4) has officially been signed into law by President Donald Trump. The long-term PRIA reauthor...

• U.S. EPA releases for public comment draft guidance for plant regulators, including biostimulants

  Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Regulations

  U.S. EPA is releasing for public comment Draft Guidance for Plant Regulators, Including Plant Biostimulants. Read a pre-publication copy of the draft guidance.

• Breakthrough in fighting plant disease

  Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The findings could lead to new ways of preventing disease in crops – of great potential benefit to farmers.

• Corteva, green-lighted to launch Powercore Ultra Enlist technology for corn in Argentina

  Date：Mar. 18, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Corteva Agriscience

  March 15th., 14th Argentinean government, through the Ag-Industry secretariat authorized the planting and commercialization of PowerCore Ultra Enlist corn, from...

  Tags:Maize

• Arcadia Biosciences receives U.S. FDA approval for Sonova GLA safflower oil in cat food

  Date：Mar. 18, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.

  Expanding on the United States Food And Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2017 approval of gamma linolenic acid (GLA) safflower oil as both safe and nutritious for u...

• New EU guidelines require supervised field trials for honey MRL setting

  Date：Mar. 15, 2019 Category：Regulations

  SGS GROUP

  The EU has published new technical guidelines to determine pesticide residue levels in honey and producers have until January 1, 2020, to make the necessary pre...

• EU Court annuls EFSA refusal to disclose glyphosate data

  Date：Mar. 11, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) must disclose details of studies on the toxicity and carcinogenic properties of glyphosate, EU judges ruled on last Thurs...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• US EPA seeks comments about planted seeds treated with insecticides

  Date：Mar. 11, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on a petition from the Center for Food Safety (CFS) requesting that EPA either initiate a ru...

• China says pest concerns justify ban on Canadian canola

  Date：Mar. 8, 2019 Category：Regulations

  China said Wednesday that it is blocking some imports of the agricultural product canola from Canada because of fears of insect infestation.

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• EU proposes not to renew approval of fungicide thiophanate-methyl

  Date：Mar. 7, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission has proposed not to renew the approval of the active substance thiophanate-methyl. Thiophanate-methyl is a member of the benzimidazole g...

  Tags:Thiophanate-methyl

• EU proposes non-renewal of ethoprophos

  Date：Mar. 6, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission has proposed not to renew the approval of the active substance ethoprophos. Ethoprophos is an organophosphate non-systemic nematicide an...

  Tags:Ethoprophos

• EU proposes not to renew approval of herbicide desmedipham

  Date：Mar. 6, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission has proposed that the approval of the active substance desmedipham will not be renewed.

  Tags:Desmedipham

• US Senate passes pesticide registration act, moves on for President's signing

  Date：Mar. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., along with Sen. Tom Uda...

• Nigeria: Commercial release of pod borer resistant cowpea II

  Date：Mar. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  As mentioned in the first part of this article, cowpea is a common crop in Nigeria, which is predominantly grown by smallholder farmers.

• USDA/APHIS proposes to allow public comment on protocols for deregulating fields previously infested with pale cyst nematode

  Date：Mar. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to allow public review and comment on the protocols for de...

• Argentina, the first country in the world authorizing a Chinese soybean transgenic trait

  Date：Mar. 1, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co.,Ltd

  February 28th. Yesterday, the Ag-Industry Secretariat published its Order 17/2019 releasing the GMO trait DBN 09004-6, that confers to the soybean crops toleran...

  Tags:GM cropSoybean

• Anvisa decides not to ban glyphosate in Brazil

  Date：Feb. 28, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has concluded that there is no scientific evidence to require the prohibition of glyphosate herbicide in Brazil...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Brazilian court confirms ban on the sale of agrochemicals in Mercado Livre

  Date：Feb. 27, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Brazilian court ruled that it is illegal to sell agrochemicals over the Internet without agronomic prescriptions. The court decision reached the "Mercado Li...

• EFSA: 13 pesticides do not require MRLs review

  Date：Feb. 27, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) identified 13 active substances (Table 1) for which a review of MRLs is no longer considered necessary, including 6 ac...

  Tags:MRLs

• Update from first day of glyphosate trial

  Date：Feb. 27, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Bayer AG on Monday faced a second U.S. jury over allegations that its popular glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer, six months after the company's...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• European Patent Office member states meet to discuss plant patent crisis

  Date：Feb. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Representatives from the 38 member states of the European Patent Office (EPO) have met to discuss the patentability of plants obtained by essentially biological...

  Tags:Patent

• Digital Green Revolution: Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s plan to digitise breeding programmes of eight crops to double annual yield

  Date：Feb. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Rs 52 crore project is funded equally by ICAR and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which, according to Purvi Mehta—its head of agriculture in Asia—has...

• US Senate passes bipartisan pesticide bill

  Date：Feb. 20, 2019 Category：Regulations

  A bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, which funds EPA oversight of the chemicals, passed the Senate by unanimous consent ...

• EFSA assesses pesticides’ effects on the thyroid

  Date：Feb. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Pesticide Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched an open consultation on the draft scientific report of EFSA on the Establishment of...

• Argentina denies any responsibility in the GMO rapeseed case

  Date：Feb. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  February 18th. The Argentinean Ag-Industry secretariat denied any responsibility for the presence of GMO rapeseed in France and Germany. Last week, a Reuters wi...

  Tags:GM cropOilseed Rape

• Western Australia - Current GM crop systems adequate: inquiry

  Date：Feb. 18, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Farmers who plant genetically modified crops can breathe a sigh of relief, after a parliamentary inquiry into compensation for non-GM farmers concluded the curr...

• New Zealand Commerce Commission gives Danish company DLF Seeds clearance to buy PGG Wrightson's seeds business

  Date：Feb. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

  DLF

  The Commerce Commission has given Danish company DLF Seeds clearance to buy PGG Wrightson's seeds business.

• Bangladesh Minister: Golden Rice to be released soon

  Date：Feb. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak has said a new variety of rice “Golden Rice” helpful to fight the vitamin A deficiency, will be released soon.

  Tags:GM cropRice

• HT cotton: India government suspends licences of top seed firms

  Date：Feb. 13, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The issue of illegal sowing of HT (herbicide-tolerant) cotton has surfaced again with the India Andhra Pradesh government cancelling the licence of one seed com...

  Tags:Cotton

• US EPA wins new chance to argue against pesticide ban

  Date：Feb. 8, 2019 Category：Regulations

  A federal appeals court is reconsidering its ruling last year that ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban a particular pesticide.