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The official bodies responsible for the release of agrochemicals in Brazil have pledged not to allow the products to be approved which copy sensitive formulas. The formulas information were leaked by a failure in Agrofit program occurred in July. The statement was made during the last regular meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (CTA) held on 12 August.

CTA brings together representatives of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), the Brazilian Institute of Natural Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) in the meeting. The National Association of Plant Protection (ANDEF) was present during the meeting and requested clarifications about what ANVISA was going to do to guarantee "information security".

"IBAMA will reject the products that have the same qualitative and quantitative composition of those products which have been subjected to undue public exposure," according to the memo of CTA meeting.

For this, the Committee requested that the ANDEF send " a clear identification of the qualitative and quantitative composition between registration related organs for reference when issue documents" as well as a final version of "label and literature with the authorized terms."