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EU denies India’s charge that its pesticide limits create non-tariff barriers

The EU has brushed aside charges made by countries including India at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against its extremely low maximum residue level (MRL) limits for pesticides in food products. The low MRL limits are alleged to create non-tariff…

USDA Advisory Committee recommends diacamba registration not be renewed

A USDA advisory committee is recommending that "due to the overwhelming reports of dicamba volatilization," registrations for dicamba herbicides such as Xtendimax and Engenia not be renewed for in-crop use in soybeans and cotton when they expire…

Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture bans agrochemicals containing Metamidophos

The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) of Peru, through the National Agrarian Health Service (SENASA), recently banned the importation and registration of new pesticides for agricultural use that contain the active ingredient,…

DRAFT ORDER: Prohibition of Tricyclazole and Buprofezin in India

According to the Notification of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare on the 31st January, 2020 in New Delhi: Whereas the Central Government, in pursuance of the orders…

Washington Senate votes to ban chlorpyrifos

A partial ban on chlorpyrifos would be paired with more money to train pesticide applicators and help growers find alternatives to the widely used but besieged chemical, under a bill passed Monday by the Washington Senate. The bill’s prime…

Government updates legislation and strengthens Peru's Senasa

The Government approved a regulation that strengthens the powers, functions of supervision, sanction and the rectory of SENASA (National Agrarian Health Service) in terms of agricultural health and registration and the control of pesticides…

Uruguay bans importation, registration, renewal of fenthion products

Uruguay prohibited the importation, registration and renewal of agrochemical products based on fenthion. The decision was made by the General Directorate of Agricultural Services of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries. According…

Pakistan to consider importing insecticides from India to fight locusts

Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from arch-rival India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations. A copy of Cabinet agenda for a Tuesday meeting seen has the import…

Government changes management of 3 agrochemical registration agencies in Brazil

At the start of February, the Brazilian Government formalized the dismissal of Carlos Ramos Venâncio (General Coordinator of the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs at the Agriculture Defense Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture,…