According to the 1157^th public announcement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fipronil and related formulated products can not be used in China after Oct 1th, 2009 except for the use of public health and dry farm’s Seed coating. That means this efficient pesticide will get out of Local market at the period of sales peak.

There are three reasons: Firstly, Fipronil has a high toxicity to honey bee and aquatic organism, especially for honey bee, it is found that in some place of French and Brazil it’s very hard to find even one honey bee for the use of fipronil. It ‘s proved that if fipronil is used around florescence and one honey bee collects honey or pollen from the flower, the honey bee itself will not die immediately ,but when it takes the things back all bees of the whole hive will die within several days. Secondly, Fipronil was used for a long time and most pets have become resistant to treatment. The last one, Dupont has hitted the mark with a new product named flubendiamide, which has high-efficiency but low toxin.

By Bill

United Nations experts suggest that, according to the treaty which help poor countries manage the hazardous imported material more effectively, it will add two kinds of pesticides——Endosulfan and Azinphos-methyl to the United Nations trade watch list. The experts believe that these two kinds of pesticides have a unacceptable risk on both the health of human and the environment.

Endosulfan is a pesticide used in the cultivation of crop, particularly to cotton, coffee and tea. It is a kind of persistent organic pollutants which may have the damage on the reproduction and the growth of human and animals.

Azinphos-methyl is produced in the development of nerve agent in the period of Would War Ⅱ and mainly used in the cultivation of vegetables and several fruit trees. It is considered to be toxic to human.

The contracting party of the Rotterdam Convention will consider to make these two kinds of chemicals include in the watch list during the next general Assembly. According to this list, the importing countries should ensure that can not allow these substances to leave the national territory in the absence of receiving country's consent. By then, the using of these two products will be strictly limited and it will affect the sales of these two kinds pesticides simultaneously.

By Grace

An increasing number of companies are re-applying for the active ingredients in EU, including metam from Taminco, triazoxide from Bayer, flupyrimidol from Sepro Europe.

EU commission’s draft decision of non-inclusion of metam in Annex I and the withdrawal of authorizations for plant protection products containing the substance met with opposition from numbers of member states. Taminco announced to re-apply this active ingredient last year. Even though EU ministers haven’t got enough votes to over-turn European Parliament’s decision, the application of Metam for particular purpose finally get extension to Dec 30^th, 2014. For metam the rapporteur Member State is Belgium.

Same was the case with Triazoxide. European Parliament firmly implemented the non-inclusion decision, and set up its schedule to gradually withdraw from the market. Under current policy, the registration will be canceled on May 31^st, 2010. Hereafter, the registers still have one more year to sell and use existing stock. During the re-applying process for Triazoxide, U.K. is the rapporteur member state.

Fluprimidol also was required to withdraw the market before July 2009, and since July 13^th, 2010, any products contained this active ingredient can not be sold. Finland acts as rapporteur member state for the substance.

The results haven’t confirmed, but it’s certain that registers would be required to submit further information which was lack of experiments supporting. Take metam for example, inadequate residues studies and lack of information on a toxicologically relevant impurity, N,N'-dimethylthiourea (DMTU), did not permit to demonstrate the acceptability of consumer exposure exerted direct effect on the disapprove decision; for the re-applying process, more investments will be used on related aspect.

From http://www.chinapesticide.gov.cn/doc10/10030512.html

By cherry