India approved 11 pesticide registrations in April 2013

Date:05-17-2013

The Indian Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) has approved the registration of 11 pesticide technicals at the meeting of the Registration Committee in April 2013, including 6 insecticides, 4 herbicides and 1 fungicide. For registration type, three products are the 9 (3) registration, two of them for export purpose. Eight product registrations belong to the  9 (4)-"Me-Too” registration.

Cheminova India has gained the most product registration including one herbicide,one insecticide and one fungicide.The details are as follow:

Product	Company	Registration type
Insecticides (6)
methidathion	PI Industries	9 (3)*
beta-cyfluthrin	Bilag Industries	9(3)
buprofezin	Cheminova India	9(4)
lambda-cyhalothrin	Sundew Life Science	9(4)
fipronil	Meghmani Organics	9(4)
acetamiprid	Hindustan Insecticides	9(4)
Herbicide (4)
sulfentrazone	Tagros Chemicals India	9 (3)*
metsulfuron-methyl	United Phosphorus	9(4)
cypermethrin	Sabero Organics Gujarat	9(4)
chlorimuron-ethyl	Cheminova India	9(4)
Fungicide (1)
isoprothiolane	Cheminova India	9 (4)
9 (3)*: registration only for export,belong to 9(3) registrations 9(3) registrations: this guideline is for registering a new pesticide (technical grade or formulation) or registering a new import source of technical grade pesticide or first time indigenous manufacture of technical grade pesticide or formulation. This is a permanent registration and does not require any renewal. 9(4) registrations: this is Me-too registration for indigenous manufacture of technical grade pesticide and formulations and import of pesticides from already registered source. Source: CIBRC