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EFSA reveals data on pesticide residues in food in EU

Reasons for non-compliances include use of non‐EU‐approved pesticides, contamination from previous uses so residues come from the soil and substances no longer used as pesticides but that are persistent in the environment. Table grapes…

EU: Production and movement of seed under coronavirus restrictions

The European Commission clarified that the production and transport of agricultural inputs such as plant reproductive material is included in the list of essential goods and services to which the so-called “green lane” procedures at borders…

Brazil MAPA approves 18 pesticide technical products

Act No. 22, published on March 27 in the Federal Official Gazette of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) of Brazil, contains the registration of 18 technical products, with nine active ingredients. All these products use…

Extension of the approval periods of the active substances Regulation (EU) 2020/421 of 18 March 2020

  Extension of the approval periods of the active substances Regulation (EU) 2020/421 of 18 March 2020 abamectin, Bacillus subtilis (Cohn 1872) strain QST 713, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Aizawai strains ABTS-1857 and GC-91, Bacillus…

Regulations Europe to debate ban on mancozeb

The EU's Standing Committee on Vegetables, Animals, Food and Feed plans to meet on March 23 and 24 to decide if they continue to authorize the use of mancozeb, the seventh most widely used pesticide in Spain. Mancozeb is a fungicide that…

Calls for Mayor of London to ban pesticides

The Mayor of London should ban pesticide use on all City Hall controlled property, according to the Green Party UK. The devastation wreaked by chemical pesticides can clearly be seen at a London nature reserve, Seething Wells Filter Beds,…

MAPA opens public consultation to review pest prevention, control programs in Brazil

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) opened a public consultation on key proposals in the area of crop protection. Participation is free for all interested parties and is open until 11th April. Ordinance 31 opened a consultation…

US EPA announces new evaluation method for pesticides

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a new method for conducting biological evaluations under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to assure that pesticide registration review actions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,…

New government ordinance does not facilitate registration of pesticides in Brazil

A recent claim, which has been propagated by the media, that Ordinance No. 43, of February 21, 2020, would facilitate the registration of pesticides is misleading. Published in the Official Gazette last Thursday (27.02) by the Ministry of Agriculture,…