On Jan 14 2014, MoA circulated the meeting minutes of 14th plenary session of the 8th National Expert Committee for Pesticide Registration, which was concluded on Dec 30 in Beijing. Application material of 19 products were reviewed and discussed, including 13 active ingredients (2 fungicides, 3 insecticides, 7 herbicides and 1 household pesticide). The conference ultimately leads to full registration of 10 active ingredients granted, including Dupont’s novel insecticide, cyantraniliprole. The company once sought the registration in China, but with only temporary registration obtained in 2012 (see Chemlinked news release on Nov 20 2012). Fluometuron and other 4 active ingredients were registered for exporting purpose only. However, tralomethrin and another active ingredient were denied of full registration. The applicants of the two active ingredients need to complement data to associated evaluation panels. Once approved by the panels, they will be granted the full registration.
Besides the registration outcome, the Committee offered several proposals on registration management during the meeting:
The registration category of “exporting only purpose” serves as an expedient for exporting-oriented industry. The legitimacy of “registration under exporting only purpose” is in question and needs to be reconsidered. Some experts from the committee even suggested that this registration category should be removed from the registration system and acceptance of such registration applications should be terminated;
The government should elevate the requirement on labeling of household pesticide as the trademark, trade name, icon and word mark would induce ingestion by children and baby. All misleading labels of household pesticide should be prohibited;
An incentive plan for minor-crop use pesticide should be established. Registration of these products could be encouraged through data waiving, data sharing among analogue pesticides or pesticides of similar application target and joint submission;
