China Environmental Protection Department (EPD), Ministry of Agriculture and United Nations Development Program (NUDP) announce IPM technology demonstration projects startup in Beijing at 8th April.
DDT is one of the twelve controlled materials in <POPs>. China will prohibit import and export DDT and the insecticides contained DDT or other POPs' (including non-closed produced dicofol) entirely since 17 th May 2009 (except use for disease control)..
The main manufacturer of dicofol in China also agreed that Dicofol contained DDT will be substituted sooner or later but until now they didn't receive any formal notification. At present, the production and supply of Dicofol is still normal .
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