The Brazilian government enact  2010/2011 national control plan for Crop pesticide residues and contamination.

According to the official Journal of Brazil on 2/9/2010, MAPA and SDA have issued 2010/2011 national control plan for Crop pesticide residues and contamination. It is applied to aim at the primary agricultural products including pineapple, garlic, peanuts, rice, bananas, potatoes, coffee, orange, lemon, apple, mango, strawberry, red pepper, soybeans, tomatoes, wheat, grapes and so on.

The primary pesticide residues to be controled include Acetamiprid, Benomyl, Captan, Phorate, Hexachlorobenzene, Dicofol etc, total of 240 species.

By Grace

Pesticide registration will have more time to meet their labeling obligation under EPA’s knotty 2006 final establishing management and disposal standards for pesticide containers and containment. Compliance with the rule was initially required by August 16, 2009. In October 2008, the Agency extended the deadline to August 16, 2010. Following requests from registrants and other stakeholders, the Agency has now taken too actions.

First, in a final rule, EPA extended the deadline to December 16,2010. This deadline is intended less as a compliance date for pesticide registrants than as a sufficient period of time for EPA to propose and make final a rule that extends the deadline another year to August 16, 2011.

Therefore, concurrent with the rule authorizing the extension, EPA also proposed the 1-year extension.

The additional time should be much appreciated by registrants whose labor to grasp the exceptionally complex requirements has been followed by accumulating administrative obstacles.

From: AgroNews

By Lisa

Recently, the United Nations Environment Programme in 2001 based on "on Persistent Organic Pollutants Stockholm Convention", the new chemical substances 9 to include human and animal health and the environment against harmful substances and the list of restricted chemicals, so making the world are classified as prohibited and restricted chemicals used in total to 21. The revised bill is "on Persistent Organic Pollutants Stockholm Convention" for the first time to increase restrictions and prohibition of the use of chemical substances list. 

United Nations Environment Programme press release issued in Geneva said, including α-HCH, β-HCH, six and seven polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and five four bromine ether, chlordecone, six polybrominated biphenyls, lindane, PeCB and PFOS and its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride, and other common chemicals being used to varying degrees, to kill pesticides, fire-resistant agent or for other business purposes, often within the intake of human and animal organs.

From :http://www.chinapesticide.gov.cn/doc10/10090906.html

By Lei