Six months after China introduced strict regulations to enhance quality control and streamline the pesticide industry, the Nanfang Daily reports that little has changed in the area of branding and registration. Of 17 acaricide brands investigated in Guangdong province, 14 were found to be in contravention of the new branding legislation. Despite the new rules banning pesticide trade names, stating that all products have to be sold under generic names, shelves stacked with such products as “Mite exterminator”, “No trace of mites” and “Kill mites on sight” can still be found, the paper says.
The independent investigation revealed that many registrations did not exist, or had expired, while some were registered for different ais than advertised. The product registration for the acaricide, Xiong guo sha man (strengthen the fruit and kill the mites), produced by Fujian Quanzhou Desheng Pesticide, was found to have expired, whilst the packaging of acaricide, Man shaxing (mite’s bane), produced by Hebei Hualing, lists its ais as avermectin, fenpyroximate and diafenthiuron, although the actual registered ai is dicofol, it was reported. 2008 is China’s ”year of pesticide regulation management”, and the Ministry of Agriculture has been trying to encourage consolidation within the pesticide industry, which suffers from over-capacity and a proliferation of small, low-profit companies.
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