Germany will begin phasing out the use of the controversial herbicide glyphosate from next year and completely ban it from 2023 as part of measures rolled out by the country’s environment ministry on Wednesday to protect insects. In July, neighboring Austria was the first EU member state to ban the use of the chemical, despite current European […]
World coffee production in the 2018-2019 season reached 174.5 million bags weighing 60 kilograms, with Arabica coffee totalling 104 million bags, or 60% of the total number while Robusta coffee accounted for 70.5 million, equivalent to 40%. This total volume was 9.8% higher than the previous crop season in 2017-2018, which recorded a total production […]
After the recent completion of environmental compliance inspections related to phosphorous conducted in seven provinces in the Yangtze Economic Zone, 276 manufacturers were discovered to have non-compliance issues and are facing corrective actions and shutdowns. The leading manufacturers discovered to have non-compliance issues produce 43% of the country’s glyphosate . Out of the top six manufacturers, only […]
Anvisa released on Monday (26/8), the first list of active ingredients of pesticides that will have toxicological reevaluation based on its own methodology. The list was established on the basis of risk criteria for human health, especially of consumers and rural workers. These include the risk of causing cancer, changes in human DNA, mutations, reproductive […]
In October 2016, the European Commission sent a request to European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to produce an EFSA guidance that addresses appropriate practice for completing risk assessments for active substances of plant protection products that have isomers and for transformation products of any active substances where these transformation products may have isomers. In response […]
The National Service of Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) of Argentina published in the Official Gazette the resolution 1,033 / 2019, which extends the phytosanitary emergency over the locust plague, commonly known as South American locust (Schistocerca cancellata), until August 31, 2021. The emergency measure had been taken in July 2017. With this new resolution, […]
Some 1,924 agrochemicals had their toxicological reclassification done this week. The Brazilian national health surveillance agency (Anvisa) once again classified the products already registered in Brazil because of the new regulatory framework of the sector, which updated and clarified the criteria for the evaluation and classification of pesticides in the country. According to Anvisa, 43 […]
The European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) has issued an alert confirming that the Tunisian authorities have officially declared an area infected with Phyllosticta citricarpa, the fungus that causes black spot. We are talking about 2,000 hectares in the Nabeul Governorate; a citrus growing area in the northeast of the country. This proves that […]
Based on a thorough review of recent data, the U.S. EPA concluded that there are reliable data to support reducing the current threefold (3X) Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) safety factor for pyrethroids to 1X, and that margin will be safe for infants and children. This reduced safety factor will be incorporated into the upcoming […]