On 9 May 2020, China ICAMA solicits opinions on 7 draft guidelines for the housing care and testing of environmental organisms and environmental behavior.

On May 6, 2020, China ICAMA invited a 25-day consultation on a draft list of the measured substances for residue trial and residue definition for dietary risk assessment.

On 30 April 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (MoARA) has invited public feedback on pesticide MRLs to be integrated into the national standard, ”GB 2763 Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticide in Food”. The deadline for comments is 31 May 2020.

On April 27th, 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (MoARA) issued the Announcement 275 to eliminate the registration of Metalaxyl-M seed/seedling-use mixtures targeting only blight and bakanae diseases caused by Fusarium and Rhizoctonia solani. A total of 24 affected registered formulations from 21 companies including Syngenta and Sipcam are required to supplement field trial data.

On April 9th, 2020, the Chinese National Pesticide MRL Review Committee announced a government procurement program for pesticide MRL regulation development. Successful tenderers will be required to complete a series of MRL-related research and field trials within the next year.

On April 8th, 2020, China MoARA released a new draft regulation, explaining the target, mechanism, post-registration obligation, and criteria for a periodic and special re-evaluation of registered pesticides.

The Chinese Standardization Administration (SAC) has recently released the full content of 7 national standards regarding the toxicological study, storage stability test, efficacy evaluation and production management of disinfectants, all of which will be implemented on October 1, 2020.

On 23 March 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs released the Announcement 280 to designates 9 testing institutes for the regulatory study of pesticide products.

The Chinese Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs consulted on March 18, 2020 a daft list of active ingredients of biopesticides registered in China. The list includes 47 microbial ingredients, 38 biochemical ingredients and 26 botanical ingredients, which help applicants to distinguish biopesticides from chemical pesticides, as well as the effective implementation of “fast-track” registration.

In response to the tension supply of disinfectants caused by 2019 Novel Coronavirus, the National Health Commission announced on Feb. 3 that disinfectants containing alcohols, chlorines, chlorine dioxide and peroxyacetic acid can be temporarily exempted from full record-filing formality at provincial health department.