ICAMA issued new registration regulations to implement the official decision about paraquat restriction in China.

1. ICAMA Implements Paraquat Restriction
Summary: ICAMA issued new registration regulations to implement the official decision
about paraquat restriction in China.
Tag: pesticide, herbicide, paraquat, paraquat SL, restriction, paraquat registration, liquid
paraquat, paraquat TK
Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China (ICAMA) issued new
regulations on paraquat registration in early June, 2012, in a move to follow the official decision to
restrict paraquat SL in China, according to CCM International’s July issue of Herbicides China
News.
On April 24, 2012, three Chinese governmental departments—the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),
the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the General Administration of
Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) jointly proclaimed an announcement to
restrict paraquat SL in consideration of "human safety in agricultural production". According to
one term of the new regulations, all current product labels as well as all current registrations and
production permits of paraquat SL products must be modified before Jan. 1, 2013, otherwise they
will be cancelled as a result. (Herbicides China News 1205: China takes restriction on paraquat)
Specializing in nationwide pesticide registration and administration with the main responsibilities
for registration, quality control, bioassay and residue monitoring of pesticides, supervision of
pesticide markets, information-sharing, international cooperation and other services, in terms of
paraquat registration, ICAMA drew up detailed administrative regulations as below:
1. All provincial institutes for the control of agrochemicals should immediately stop administrative
acceptance and sanction on the field experiments and the application for registration of paraquat
TK and paraquat SL (including single SL and mixed SL).
2. Paraquat SL manufacturers in China should update relevant registration certificates and permit
labels before Oct. 31, 2012:
a) Paraquat SL manufacturers should provide the original registration certificate, the original label
specimen, the substance label, as well as new label specimen, origin proof of TK, illustration of
product composition, 24-hour first aid hotline, etc., when they apply the modification of paraquat
registration;
b) Safety warning slogan should be featured in new paraquat SL label specimen with intense
color contrast or large character size;

2. c) New label specimen should also include 24-hour first aid hotline. And the specialized 24-hour
service of paraquat first aid should be provided by experienced medical personnel in the general
hospital.
3. Those unmodified or unsanctioned paraquat labels will be cancelled and new paraquat
products without new label will be forbidden to come on the market in China after Jan. 1, 2013.
4. Emetic, odor agents and colorant should be added into the paraquat TK products. And those
paraquat TK manufacturers who want to own paraquat SL export qualification should apply for
the paraquat SL export registration by modifying current SL registrations with their active TK and
SL registration certificates and production permits after July 1, 2014, when all current
registrations and production permits of paraquat SL and mixed paraquat SL will be cancelled in
China except the export ones.
5. Others:
a) Paraquat TK source of SL manufacturers should be relatively stable, and must be checked by
ICAMA if the TK source changes;
b) Paraquat SL manufacturers should ensure that current old-labelled paraquat will be withdrawn
from circulation in China after Dec. 31, 2013, and new-labelled paraquat will also be withdrawn
from Chinese market after July 1, 2016, when all products of paraquat SL are forbidden to sell
and apply in China. The SL products are recommended to be packed in plastic bottles with thin
bottleneck in the future so that the liquid outflow time can be prolonged. It's necessary to make a
record of material purchase, production and sales, and the finished paraquat SL should be
companied with instruction, first aid booklet and active carbon;
c) Provincial institutes for the control of agrochemicals should aggressively promote and
implement the decision about paraquat restriction. And examinations and checks will be
implemented by ICAMA and relevant governmental departments in the future.
(Relative background and details about the official decision of paraquat restriction in China were
mentioned in Herbicides China News 1205: China takes restriction on paraquat; other relative
discussions were reported in Herbicides China News 1202, 1206.)
Source: Herbicides China News 1207
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_11.html
Content of Herbicides China News 1207:

3. ICAMA implements paraquat restriction
Key regulations for pesticide industrial integration in China
Great expectation on Yangnong Chemical in 2012
Lier Chemical confirms relocation of Jiangsu Kuaida
Hisun Chemical plans new pesticide plant
Shangyu Nutrichem boosts its pesticide productivity
Semi-annual review of herbicide industry in China
Chinese acetochlor export remains unaffected by the EU restriction
Metolachlor should meet nice prospect in China
Tianyi Agrochemical runs pilot production of HGE herbicide
……
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