Pesticides banned or phased out in 2011
Date:03-08-2012
January
• The Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) proposed to ban the use of two organophosphorus insecticides, parathion-methyl and phorate in the Brazilian market.
February
• New Zealand proposed to phase out the use of two insecticides acephate and methamidophos, and fungicide quintozene.
March
• New Zealand decided to ban the organophosphate insecticide trichlorfon.
April
• India agreed to phase out pesticide endosulfan.
May
• United Nations declared global ban on insecticide endosulfan.
June
• New Zealand proposed to phase out for insecticide diazinon.
August
• Australia may take regulatory action to control the widely used agricultural chemical dimethoate due to potential health concerns.
• Argentina confirmed to phase-out endosulfan by 2012.
• Australia decided to phase out the organophosphate insecticide, parathion-methyl over the next two years.
September
• The Office of Indiana State Chemist has banned the sale and distribution of DuPont's herbicide Imprelis (active ingredient: aminocyclopyrachlor).
• The European Commission has decided not to re-register the insecticide/acaricide, flufenoxuron, and the acaricide, propargite.
October
• China cancelled all registrations and production licenses of fenamiphos, fonofos, phosfolan-methyl, calcium phosphide, magnesium phosphide, zinc phosphide, cadusafos, coumaphos, sulfotep and terbufos by 31st October 2011 and ban their marketing and usage by 31st October 2013.
• The European Commission decided not to approve herbicide propanil.
• The European Commission has decided not to re-register the herbicide, asulam.
• EU decided not to renew the approval of the plant growth regulator, cyclanilide.
November
• The European Commission has decided not to approve the herbicide, propanil, and the plant growth regulator, 2-naphthyloxyacetic acid.
December
• The European Commission has decided not to re-register the herbicide, acetochlor.
• US EPA phased out for acaricide, dicofol.
• The Dominican Republic banned five pesticides acephate, aldicarb, methamidophos, monocrotophos and omethoate and restricted the use of 22 others.
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