Regulations

• China issues biosafety certificates for herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant corn and soybean, paving the way for local GMO crop cultivation

  Date：Jan. 24, 2020 Category：Regulations

  China’s agriculture ministry issued biosafety certificates on Tuesday for domestically grown, genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean traits, moving closer ...

  Tags:SoybeanMaize

• US EPA proposes new atrazine herbicide measures

  Date：Jan. 24, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed interim registration decision on atrazine that includes mandatory spray drift control measures and ot...

• Chlorpyrifos ban proposed in Washington legislature

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The pesticide chlorpyrifos would be banned in Washington except for use on three crops under a bill introduced Jan. 20 in the state Senate.

• U.S. EPA to deliver important decisions on chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, pyrethroids, atrazine and dicamba

  Date：Jan. 21, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The EPA this year will deliver important decisions to U.S. agriculture, including on chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, the neonicotinoids, pyrethroids, atrazine and ove...

• Spraying pesticides using drones illegal: Indian Agriculture Ministry to Hyderabad activist

  Date：Jan. 20, 2020 Category：Regulations

  While extensive usage of drones to spray pesticide on agricultural fields is being reported from different parts of Telangana, the Ministry of Agriculture and F...

• Brazil: Anvisa concludes public consultation on abamectin

  Date：Jan. 17, 2020 Category：Regulations

  he deadline for contributions to Public Consultation 728/2019, which deals with the toxicological re-evaluation of the active ingredient, abamectin, in agrochem...

  Tags:InsecticidesEnvironment & HealthAbamectin

• Brazil: Anvisa begins carbendazim re-evaluation

  Date：Jan. 17, 2020 Category：Regulations

  At the end of December 2019, Anvisa published the Public Call Notice 01/2019, which called on companies holding carbendazim agrochemical registrations to take p...

  Tags:FungicidesEnvironment & Health

• US EPA to approve first beehive uses of biopesticide to control wax moths

  Date：Jan. 16, 2020 Category：Regulations

  EPA is proposing to register a pesticide product containing Bacillus thuringiensis, subsp. aizawai strain ABTS 1857 (Bta ABTS 1857) to prevent and control wax m...

  Tags:Microbial Pesticides

• New pesticide buffer zones anger French farmers

  Date：Jan. 15, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The French government has established safe distances for pesticide spreading on crops near homes in an attempt to settle a heated debate between farmers and env...

  Tags:Ban

• France bans flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor as they harm bees

  Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Two pesticides with the same mode of action as neonicotinoids, causing harm to bees, are now prohibited, according to a decree published this Tuesday, December ...

  Tags:Ban

• EU Commission bans Bayer pesticide linked to harming bees

  Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission decided on Monday not to renew approval for a pesticide linked to harming bees, effectively banning Bayer’s insecticide known as thiacl...

  Tags:BanFungicides

• EU ban chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl

  Date：Jan. 13, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The European Commission formally adopted the Regulations on 10 January 2020, meaning that Member States must, within one month, withdraw all authorisations for ...

  Tags:BanMRLsInsecticidesChlorpyrifosChlorpyrifos-methyl

• Courts may suspend, Roundup cancer trials expected to be anticipated

  Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On Wednesday, St. Louis County Court spokeswoman Christine Bertelson confirmed that one trial set to start Jan. 27 has been officially postponed with no new tri...

  Tags:BanHerbicides

• South Australia lifts ban on GM crops

  Date：Jan. 9, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Minister for Prime Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone released his statement at the start of 2020, saying that farmers in South Australia (SA) ca...

  Tags:GM crop

• Bangladesh: Form action plan to stop use of Glyphosate containing pesticides

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The High Court today directed the government to form an action plan in 90 days in order to stop the use of Glyphosate containing hazardous pesticides including ...

  Tags:BanHerbicides

• Golden rice approved as safe for consumption in the Philippines

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Nutrient-rich golden rice—a genetically-modified, amber-hued crop—has passed a rigorous biosafety assessment in the Philippines, where it may soon be distribu...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• Pakistan: New Bt cotton variety was approved by Punjab Seed Council

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Regulations

  New varieties of crops are being prepared which can withstand severe weather conditions and have strong immunity against diseases, said Punjab Agriculture Minis...

  Tags:GM cropCotton

• Rwanda pilots ‘revolutionary’ potato seeds

  Date：Jan. 6, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has started testing True Potato Seeds, which are produced by Solynta, a Dutch firm that develops hybrid potatoes.

  Tags:Potato

• Chinese government encourages mergers and acquisitions in pesticide industry, manufacturers’ resettlement in west China required to observe local environmental protection regulations

  Date：Jan. 3, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Since the pesticide production licensing was delegated to the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry has shouldered the responsibility ...

• Government survey okays Brazilian produce for pesticide residues

  Date：Jan. 3, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The vast majority (92%) of fruit and vegetables sold in Brazil are within national safe levels for pesticide contamination, according to a four-year government ...

  Tags:MRLsFruits and Vegetables

• Brazil: MAPA simplifies rules for registering agrochemicals for ornamental plants

  Date：Jan. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  A “Joint Normative Instruction” published on Tuesday, 24th December, in the Federal Official Gazette of Brazil established the guidelines for the registration...

  Tags:RegistrationOrnamental and Turf

• China approves two new GM crops from U.S. for import, renews 10 others

  Date：Jan. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  China approved two new genetically modified (GM) crops for import on Monday that could boost agricultural purchases from the United States, while renewing permi...

  Tags:GM crop

• French eco group calls to ‘cancel’ buffer zone, as it not go far enough

  Date：Jan. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  A French environmental association is calling for the cancellation of the government’s recent decree to set a minimum buffer zone of 5-20 metres between pestic...

  Tags:Ban

• Colombia announces resumption of aerial fumigation of coca, again

  Date：Jan. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Colombia’s government announced the resumption of the controversial aerial fumigation of coca with glyphosate for the second time in a year. The use of glyp...

  Tags:BanHerbicidesSpray & Irrigation

• China plans to issue biosafety certificates to domestic GM soybean, corn

  Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Regulations

  China's agriculture ministry said on Monday it plans to issue biosafety certificates to a domestically grown, genetically modified (GM) soybean crop and two cor...

  Tags:GM cropSoybeanMaize

• EPA finalizes list of next 20 chemicals to undergo risk evaluation under TSCA

  Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Regulations

  After reviewing input from stakeholders and the public, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the next 20 chemicals to undergo risk evaluatio...

  Tags:Environment & Health

• US EPA Science could torpedo Roundup lawsuits

  Date：Dec. 30, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued a finding that could – and certainly should – undermine some of the most outrageous lawsuits and ...

• Brazil: Ministry of Agriculture facilitates registration of three biological pesticides

  Date：Dec. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  This month, Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) published Normative Instruction No. 36 with three new “Reference Specifications” for...

  Tags:RegistrationPests&DiseasesBiopesticidesInsecticidesFungicides

• France confirms pesticide buffer of up to 20 metres

  Date：Dec. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Dangerous pesticides will legally be required to be spread at least 20 metres away from inhabited homes and buildings from January 1, 2020, the French governmen...

  Tags:Environment & Health

• U.S. EPA approves continued use of herbicide atrazine

  Date：Dec. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

  EPA issued a proposed interim decision on atrazine-a widely used herbicide in sorghum and corn. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement, "With c...

  Tags:HerbicidesMaizeAtrazine