China novel pesticide registrations broke historic record in 2011

According to Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), total 652 products for temporary approval were evaluated by ICAMA in 2011, of which 542 passed evaluation (83%) and 110 failed.

Some 23 novel pesticides covering 37 products were evaluated in 2011, a year with the largest amounts over the past 10 years. Half of the evaluated novel pesticides were registered by Chinese enterprises on behalf of overseas enterprises for production in China while the other half was engineered by Chinese enterprises, indicating that the capability, product quality and management skill of Chinese pesticide producers have come quite close to the international level.

Over 60% of the temporarily registered formulations in 2011 referred to water-based and granule formulation, so far there have been some 3,700 environment-friendly registered formulations which currently still remain valid. This showed that China’s pesticide formulations continue to be optimized with the increase of water-based and granule formulations.

Among the 47 temporarily registered pesticides that have been approved in 2011, two products are medium toxic, none is high toxic and all the rest are low toxic; the low-toxic formulations account for above 80% of total registered products. In addition, registration requests for botanical, microbial and biological pesticides have grown significantly; there were 4 registration requests for biological pesticide among the 23 novel pesticide applications in 2011 which reveal the trend of low-toxic pesticide registration.

2011 evaluation focused more on the safety side of pesticide, and would not endorse products which have excessive residues, be harmful to users’ health and environment or which may lead to pesticide injuries.

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