According to China Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture(ICAMA), the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ordered on September 4, 2012 to the food process companies that all the edamame from China shall be examined the difenoconazole residual level.

The Chinese Ministry of Agricultural has published the Announcement No. 1825, “Guideline  for Developing ADI of Pesticide”. The guideline is aimed at setting technical basis for MRL establishment and risk assessment to human.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture published on an official circular the first-part of result of quality inspection on pesticide goods. More than 90% the pesticide were quality standard-compliant but approximately 15% of the pesticides were incorrectly labeled.

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.

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.

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.