On April 19, CropLife Brazil estimated that sales of biopesticide in Brazil are expected to grow 33% to R$ 1.789 billion in 2021 and R$ 3.699 billion by 2030, based on data collected by Consultancy Blink.

On April 16, 2021, China MoARA released the ministerial inspection results of pesticide quality in 2003. The overall qualification rate was 96.2%, an increase of 7.6% from the previous year of 88.6%. 40% of the substandard pesticides were fake products containing no registered active ingredient or containing unregistered active ingredients.

On April 13, 2021, the Brazilian Ministry of Agricultural, Livestock and Supply announced the registration of 39 formulated pesticides, of which 14 are categorized as low-impact pesticides.

On March 24, 2021, French pesticide authority ANSES published the follow-up measures for the list of co-formulants banned in plant protection products (PPP), an amendment to Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 which was published on March 3. Affecting applicants and authorization holders are required to apply for a non-significant change of composition to maintain the authorization process or existing authorization.

On March 5, 2021, Chine promulgated the national food safety standard, “GB 2763-2021 Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food”, which is due to take effect on September 3. According to MoARA, GB 2763-2021 consists of 10,092 MLRs for 564 pesticides in 376 food categories, which completed the goal of establishing 10,000 statutory pesticide MRLs by the end of 2020.

The introduction of GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) to China’s pesticide registration dates back to the 1980s and toxicological laboratories began to follow the principles. Between 1982 and 1986, a safety evaluation center funded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) was established and a series of GLP documents in the form of agricultural standards, targeting specific areas such as residue test, physical and chemical analysis, and environmental safety evaluation. In late 2003, MoA(now known as MoARA) issued the ministerial regulation, “MoA Announcement 739-Measures for the GLP Compliant Accreditation of Pesticide Laboratories’”, marked MoA a GLP monitoring authority in pesticide area and 29 pesticide laboratories were accredited between 2010 and 206. But at the same time, MoA also accepted test data from GLP/GEP institutes accredited by CNAS, CMA CAL and other authorities can also be allowed for pesticide registration until the pesticide regulatory reform since 2017. China has been an active participant in global exchange and cooperation. Since 2005, many government officers have participated in the OECD GLP working group meetings and inspector training course. China and the US signed a cooperative agreement on the “sustainable GLP compliance monitoring program” in 2005, which has been renewed biannually until 2017. China also participated in various accreditation events initiated by monitoring authorities from OECD members such as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, and Poland, etc. By 2020, 16 out 27 Chinese testing facilities accredited by OECD members are pesticide laboratories. With the promulgation of new pesticide regulation in 2017, GLP accreditation became a requisite for the registration process: only data from MoA-recognized testing facilities or overseas labs from a country or organization which have signed MAD (Mutual/ multilateral Acceptance of Data) agreement wit

On March 20, 2021, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice to provincial agricultural bureaus concerning the name modification and registration amendment of Veratrum rhizome extract and Grapholitha molesta pheromone, which have already registered in China.

On March 21, 2021, International Organization for Standardization provisionally approved the common names of 14 novel pesticide active ingredients, of which 6 were developed by Chinese enterprises.