Recently, the 19th Pesticide Information Exchange Conference was held in Nanjing. Vice director of ICAMA Mr. Zhao Yonghui presented on “Pesticide registration management and company’s precautions”. Mr. Zhao interpreted assessment factors in pesticide registration, and concerns of pesticide registration, and introduced document authorization, pharmacodynamic test and risk assessment when registering pesticides. Apart from that, Mr. Zhao has also summarized practical advice for 13 pesticides to help companies avoid detours in registration, which covers some popular products in market as followed:

In March, 2015, 17 experts from 11 countries met at International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, France) to access the carcinogenicity of some pesticides including Glyphosate. The report published indicates that Glyphosate is classified as probably carcinogenic to humans. The evaluation is based on large amount of existing studies but not any new research results. Result of IARC raised a heat discussion.

The development of pesticide industry of China has only gone through several decades, even though China has become one of the largest pesticide production and exportation countries, there still exits big gap comparing with developed countries. The main gap falls on the production and application of highly-toxic pesticides and large scale of old products. 33 types of highly toxic pesticides have been banned step by step since 1980s, and only 22 registered types of highly toxic can be used now.

In an effort to improve pesticide environmental risk assessment, the ICAMA held a training program in Hangzhou on October 14th and 15th 2015.

According to a State Council announcement made on September 2nd 2015, the revision of pesticide administration regulations is a priority agenda for 2015. The announcement states.

For the past one and a half year, REACH24H Consulting Group has successfully completed the approval application of active substance under EU BPR regulation, and helped three Asia companies to be listed onto the BPR Article 95 List. These achievements have made REACH24H the only consulting group in Asia to independently accomplish the BPR registration application for new active substances. The achievements also contribute a lot to the companies’ competitiveness in the EU market and make it possible for them to compete for million dollar orders.

The US is the world’s agricultural superpower and therefore takes the safe use of pesticides and supervision & administration of pesticides registration very seriously. It set up EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) in 1970 to safeguard the environment and human health. EPA is responsible for evaluation, suspension and withdrawal of pesticide registration and market approval. 

From 1 January 2013 to 20 April 2015, China ICAMA received almost 15,000 applications for field trial, which is an essential part of obtaining pesticide registration in China, of which 10,234 of them were based on the off-patent or the sub-new active ingredients.The number the application filed by over-seas applicants was relatively small, reflecting the Chinese producers are inflating expectation on the off-patent market.

The total sales of the top 100 were 106.33 billion CNY, an increase of 9% on the previous year of 97.92 billion CYN. The qualifying criteria for the top 100 ranking list required a minimum of 350 million CYN per annum turnover, reflecting growth of 17% compared with 2013. 36 of thenm have reached sales of more than 1 billion CNY.

On 11 May 2015, China ICAMA released a correspondence opening a 20 days public consultation on the optimum ratio of gyphosate to glufosinate in these product formulations. The institute is collecting scientific suggestion with a view to opening registration on mixed formulations in the future.