The MoA published the Announcement No 1876 on 19 Dec 2012 and granted the qualification to 29 testing facilities for pesticide registration. The 29 testing institutions are allowed to conduct toxicological studies for ICAMA registration in the next five years. 

The CCPIA revealed that “Limit Standard of Harmful Solvents for Emulsifiable Concentrates Pesticide Preparations" has been finalized and will be issued in no time.The standard sets the limit level of several harmful solvents which are commonly used in the emulsifiable concentrates (EC) of the pesticide preparations.

China is one of the largest pesticide exporters in the world with  exports of 1,440,000 tons in 2011. Chinese pesticides are however criticized by the international stakeholders for being inferior and of poor quality. To combat the dismal reputation of Chinese products, the government is developing new regulations. Although the final legal text of new pesticide regulation has not been published, inferences on its content and scope can be made based on statments made by officials from the ICAMA (the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture). Boosted R&D Oriented and Environmental-friendly Players The Chinese industry is saturated by small and medium sized companies producing a limited number of pesticides. Therefore, fierce competition and underselling of these pesticides to the overseas market is a common phenomenon. R&D activities are almost completely isolated to a number of the larger Chinese companies and of course multinational corportations.In China, pesticide companies are required to obtain both the ICAMA registration and the manufacturing permit issued by industrial authorities: the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) or the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). Only manufacturing companies can be granted the ICAMA registration therefore there is little incentive for R&D. This dilemma will only be solved when registration for new pesticides can be applied for by  non-manufacturing companies and the registration certification can be subsequently transferred to other manufacturers. Furthermore, the “one registration certificate, one manufacturing permit” policy required by manufacturers is also likely to be relaxed. Under this potential ammendment if a pesticide company has been granted a manufacturing permit but not yet granted ICAMA registration, it can be commissioned by other ICAMA registration holders to manufacture the produ

Last month in Hangzhou, official from the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has listed ten active ingredients most frequently registered with ICAMA certification in the past three years.

It is  required that all the active ingredient(s) contained in the formulated pesticides should be registered with the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) and the ai(s) shall be listed on the label of the products in China. However, doping of un-registered ingredient(s) into the formulated products is increasingly observed in China’s crop protection market, which poses as problem on food safety and pesticide resistances.

On 14 Dec 2012, an Expert Meeting on the revision of evaluating rules for termite control products was held by the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) in Hangzhou.

The 11th plenary session of the 8th National Expert Committee was concluded in Urumqi, China. Of all the 29 applications, 12 of them have been granted the ICAMA’s approval of full registration. The name, ai(s), formulation, range, uses, applicant, validation period of the applications and the results were summarized in the tables below.

On 6 Dec 2012, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health co-published the “Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food(GB 2763-2012)”, which will be uniquely and compulsorily implemented from 1 Mar 2013. Meanwhile, other 6 national standards and 10 industrial standards regarding pesticide MRLs will be repealed from then on.

The 11th plenary session of the 8th National Expert Committee for Pesticide Registration was concluded in Urumqi on 18th August. The experts have reviewed the submissions for full ICAMA registration. DuPont’s novel insecticide cyantraniliprole failed to convince the experts because of its effect on bee.

On November 16th, 2012, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has published a notice on its website announcing that the qualifications of 6 paraquat emergency agencies have been approved.