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Chinese government has been actively taking measures to confine the use of high risk pesticides. It has published a series of restriction policies to protect human health and environmental safety by restricting the sell and use of certain products that are highly toxic or with carcinogenic and teratogenic properties, or have potential to contaminate daily diet through leaving excessive residues on food.

The tables below show the complete list of pesticides banned or restricted by Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and other ministries and commissions.

Table 1 pesticides banned by Chinese government

No.	Banned pesticide	Due to	Number of the announcement from MOA(and others)/Date
1-4	HCH, DDT, aldrin, dieldrin	persistent organic pollutant	No.199/ Jun 5, 2002
5	*toxaphene（camphechlor）	persistent organic pollutant; environmental hormone substances; carcinogenesis ; teratogenesis
6	nitrofen	carcinogenesis; teratogenesis
7	dibromochloropane	reproduction toxicity
8-9	EDB,chlordimeform	Carcinogenesis; teratogenesis
10-12	*mercurycompounds,arsena,acetate	high toxicity; accumulation of heavy metals; human and environmental impact
13	Bis-ADTA	teratogenesis
14-18	*fluoroacetamide,tetramine, sodiumfluoroacetate, gliftor, silatrane	very high toxicity
19-23	methamidophos, parathion, parathion-methyl, monocrotophos, *phosphamidon	high toxicity	2008 No. 1 from 5 ministries and commissions /Jan 8, 2008
24-33	fenamiphos,fonofos,phosfolan-methyl,lcium phosphide,megnesium phosphide,zinc phosphide,cadusafos,coumaphos, sulfotep,terbufos	high toxicity	No. 1586/Jun 15, 2011
34-36	chlorsulfuron（technical, single agent and mixture, tribenuron-methly and metsulfuron-methyl single agent	long residual effect; phytotoxicity to follow-up crops	No. 2032 /Dec 9, 2013
	canceled the technical and mixture registration of ethametsulfuron and metsulfuron Jul 1, 2015
	banned the sell and use of chlorsulfuron,ethametsulfuron and metsulfuron with single agent from Dec 31, 2015
	banned the sell and use of mixture with ethametsulfuron and metsulfuron from Jul 1, 2017
37-38	canceled the registration of asomate and urbacide	the production and use of organic arsine poses high risk to human, animals and the environment,	No. 2032/Dec 9, 2013
37-38	banned the sell and use of asomate and urbacide from Dec 31, 2015		No. 2032/Dec 9, 2013
－	stopped the repcaking registration of high/very high toxic product	high / very high toxicity	No. 194/Apr 22, 2002
－	stopped the repcaking registration of rodenticide	high / very high toxicity	No. 274/Apr 30, 2003
*pesticide already in the Rotterdam Convention

Table 2 pesticide restricted by Chinese government

No.	Restricted pesticide	Restricted range	Due to	Number of the announcement from MOA(and others)/Date
1-8	phorate, isofenphos methyl, demeton, carbofuran, aldicarb, ethoprophos, phosfolan, isazofos	no use on vegetables, fruit trees, tea, herbal medicine	high toxicity	No. 199 /Jun 5, 2002
9-10	dicofol, fenvalerate	no use on tea tree	impurities of organochlorine、 excessive residues	No. 199 /Jun 5, 2002
11	omethoate	no use oncabbage and citrus trees	high toxicity	No. 194/ No. 1586/Apr 22, 2002/Jun 15, 2011
12	daminozide	no use on peanuts	carcinogenesis	No. 274/Apr 30, 2003
13	fipronil	except for use on hygienic and dry crop seeds coatings	high risk to aquatic organisms and bees, degraded slowly in soil	No. 1157 from 3ministries and commissions/Feb 25, 2009
14-17	isocarbophos	no use on citrus trees	high toxicity	No. 1586 /Jun 15, 2011
	methomyl	no use on citrus, apple, tea trees and brassicaceous vegetable	high toxicity
	endosulfan	no use on apple and tea trees	high toxicity / persistent organic pollutant
	methyl bromide	no use on strawberries and cucumbers	high toxicity /damage theozone sphere
18	paraqut technical and liquid formulation	Stopped the new product registration	high toxicity	No. 1745 from 3ministries and commissions/Apr 24, 2012
	paraqut	cancel the liquid formulation registration, retain those export from technical companies from Jul 2, 2014
	paraqut	stop the sell and use of liquid formulation from Jul 1, 2016
19-20	chlorpyrifos triazophos	stopped the new registration on vegetables	excessive residues, poses risk to diet	No.2032 /Dec 9, 2013
		cancel the registration on vegetebles from Dec 31, 2014
		ban the use on vegetables from Dec 31, 2016