The Environmental protection Agency (EPA) is requesting public comment on options for disclosing inert ingredients in pesticides from Dec 23rd, 2009. According to Debra Edwards, the chief officer of EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, all the ingredients are transparent to EPA currently, but except a few highly hazard materials, most of the inert ingredients are not forced to label on the product packages.

In order to help consumers make sensible decisions and better protect public health, EPA believes that that the pesticide users should also be informed about inert ingredients, especially when some of them are being claimed to have impact on environment by state law in USA.

However, pesticide manufacturers show great concern on this issue, as inert ingredient are now treated as business proprietary information within the whole industry. As a major pesticide producer, china export vast amount of pesticide to USA consistently, and if the new rules approved, it will surely produced a great effect on the global market, including china. Let’s wait and see what happens.

http://www.cpcia.org.cn/html/news/200912/71579_8533.shtml

By Cherry

After since Nicosulfuron being off-patented in 2007, the product has became the hotspot within domestic agrochemical manufacturers. Just in the first season of 2009, there are more and more firms putting their hands on registration of Nicosulfuron’s different formulations.

The oversea market demand is 5000MT per year, about 3/10 of Nicosulfuron is exported from China. The aim market is EURO, South America and Middle-East. With the manufacture volume increase beyond people’s imagination, now the price and quality of Nicosulfuron made in China becomes increasingly competitive than foreign-made ones. Also, with the lower cost of raw material, price of Nicosulfuron will become much more competitive than ever.

By Ben

The sulfonylurea herbicides that invented by Dupont since the 21st century have proved to be higly effective and low toxicity to the environment. In recent years, many herbicides that caused polution have been slowly weeded out from the market, while sulfonylurea herbicides become increasingly popular.? There are more than 30 commercial brands in the world.

Sulfonylurea herbicides market occupied about 2 billion US dollar globally, about 11% of total herbicides market in the world. According to statistic, the market will increase by 2% every year. Among 32 sulfonylurea products, Nicosulfuron's market value topped all the rest.

Sulfonylurea herbicides have a great potential of future, Chlorimuron and Nicosulfuron are both Psychem's most valued products.

From http://www.chinapesticide.gov.cn/doc09/09122804.html

By Lynn