中国杀虫剂月报

On 20 March, 2014, Ministry of Agriculture issued national food safety standard——Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Pesticides in Food (GB2763-2014), to take into effect on 1 Aug., 2014. The new standard includes newly-added 1,357 MRLs indexes of 65 pesticides, as compared with the 2012 version (GB2763-2012).  Due to the new MRLs standard, the control of pesticides in the segment of sale and use would be stricter than before, especially for chemical pesticides. On the contrary, bio-pesticides featured low toxicity and low residues could benefit from the increasingly strict management for food safety.

Some producers are eyeing bio-pesticide industry at present. In the issue, it is reported that two new bio-pesticides production projects are about to launch in the coming years to enlarge their bio-pesticide capacity, including matrine and empedobacter brevis. It is believed that bio-pesticides would get more and more attentions in the domestic market in the coming days.

Note: 1. All tables and figures in this issue are calculated by the same RMB/USD exchange rate (1USD=6.1556RMB). 2. Nuances in some data are mainly caused by rounding principle.