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.

More discretion will be delegated to the provincial authorities in re-evaluating the qualification of Chinese pesticide producers

The ICAMA has stopped receiving application for the technical and aqua solution preparations of parquat and relevant manufacturers are required to apply alteration formalities for their registrations and modifiy the labels on the herbicide.

Pesticide goods including in “Inventory of Dangerous Goods”(GB12268) with low toxicity which were packaged in limited amount can be exempted from China's Regulation on Road Transport of Hazardous Goods to some extent.

Recently, China’s MOA, MIIT and AQSIQ have jointly issued an announcement regarding the herbicide paraquat on health and safety considerations. The pronouncement published on 24 April to limit the production and uses of the herbicide