China Ministry of Environmental Protection is to initiate environmental among all pollution-concerned industries. The surplus glyphosate industry will face a though campaign as disqualified companies will be ordered to halt production or even eliminated from China.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture noticed to its affiliates and subordinates on August 28, 2012 about next year’s budget plan for agriculture items. For agrochemical concerned section, the budget plan is to funding fees to conduct risk and safety assessment of several ais and registration trials on minor-crops as well as MRLs establishment.

Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have jointly released a notice on August 16, 2012 and asked the competent authorities to strengthen inspections on domestic marketing activities in the crop protection field.

Biocidal products in China are classified and administrated as different kinds of commercial products in terms of their various application targets and application areas, the 23 types of products in the EU BPR are regulated as pesticides, veterinary drugs, medicines, food or feed additives, disinfectants, drinking water-relevant products, etc. in China.

Early this month, Jiangsu Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has released a local announcement to the herbicide companies to ensure the quality and safety of the herbicide products. The herbicide producers will be frequently examined on their qualifications and sampled on their products. And the salesmen from the companies are required to correctly instruct the users of how to spray the products.

Shandong Bureau of Quality Supervision (QSB) inspected the insecticides in the market and two of the products were found sub-standard.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced on 11th, July that 59 renewal applications for pesticide manufacturing license have been rejected by the experts committee.

Recently in Beijing, China Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), China Custom and other industrial experts have discussed HS Code problems resulting from restrictions on the herbicide paraquat.

China to renew its environmental labeling requirement for thermal mosquito-repellent products by setting series of technical requirements in product designing, manufacturing, limits of the hazardous substances, packaging, recycling.

DuPont’s Rynaxypyr has been patent-protected with its debut in China 4 years ago, unceasingly illegal productions and marketings of the insecticide have been probed and sentenced since then due to the high profit after the risk. This month, two patent infringements cases with 24 million Yuan worth of the counterfeits were sentenced in Jiangsu, a strong chemical outputting province in China.