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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012 Americas
South American region seeks
flexible agchem approvals
The South American customs union the Andean Community’s
(CAN) pesticides committee, the Cotasa de Plaguicidas, wants
to “rationalise and make flexible” the harmonised agricultural
use pesticide agrochemical registration process. CAN member
state representatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
met late last year at the 120th Cotasa reunion, and produced
three joint initiatives.
They agreed to adopt amendments to Resolution 630
covering the data required from an applicant for a product
registration, and what modifications a registrant can request
to a registration. Resolution 630 of 2002, along with Decision
436 of 1998, set the harmonised pesticide registration regime
in the union (Agrow No 422, p 21).
The amendments would establish requirements for the
following policies: the processing of new authorisations of
an approved pesticide under a different name; defining the
conditions for adding manufacturers, formulators and the
countries of origin for an approved pesticide; and regulating
the requirements for raising the application rate of an approved
pesticide and re-setting its toxicological category.
The first of those is designed to allow the agrochemical
industry to develop strategies for supplying the same product
with different names in separate niche markets and different
trading conditions, while the second would aim to facilitate
and expand product supplies in domestic markets, while
responding to moves in international markets, the Cotasa
explains.
The meeting also considered the flexibility in the requirements
for the registration of active ingredients that are under patent
or data protection.
The Cotasa called on the secretary general of the CAN to
process the amendments of the Resolution and Decision as
soon as possible to improve member states’ competitiveness.
It further called for member states to evaluate the possibility
of establishing harmonised procedures and requirements
for the registration and control of plant growth regulators
and adjuvants, including their import, export, manufacture,
formulation, packaging and distribution.
The meeting supported three proposals, which it decided “to
move on in the short to medium term”. The first concerns
a project for setting maximum residue limits (MRLs) on
four “low toxicity” pesticides. The Cotasa hopes to gain the
support of the WTO and the USDA on the project, which covers
Syngenta’s fungicide, azoxystrobin, and three insecticides:
DuPont’s chlorantraniliprole, Dow AgroSciences’ spinetoram
and Sumitomo Chemical’s pyriproxyfen.
It would not only grant access to significant international
resources but also lead to the inclusion of Codex Alimentarius
MRLs that can subsequently be extrapolated to more than 20
tropical plants of the region, facilitating exports particularly to
the EU, the Conasa notes.
The second supported proposal was to take part in the second
global minor-use summit (GMUS-II), which takes place this
month and to which Colombia was invited as a member of the
advisory committee. The summit is of particular significance
to CAN member states in facilitating internationally recognised
approvals of products for use on minor crops. The last adopted
proposal was for the creation of a network of laboratories across
the region for the control of pesticide formulations and residues.
Earlier in 2011, the secretary general of the CAN launched a
project in association with the FAO to improve the control of
pesticide use in the region. The secretary general accepted that
highly toxic pesticides continued to be used in the region. The
project was scheduled to last two years, and would include the
establishment of the regional laboratory network among other
capacity raising goals of a technically improved registration
system and post-registration controls.
INTELLIGENCE
South/Central Am agchem sales
up 30% in 2011
The agrochemical market for South and Central America rose
by 29.7% in 2011 to $10,875 million, industry association
CropLife Latin America reports. The association cites preliminary
figures from market research company Phillips McDougal and
includes the sales from all of its national affiliate markets except
Mexico. After currency effects and inflation are removed, the
adjusted growth was of some 15.3%.
Brazil accounted for over 70% of sales at just over $7,800
million, below mooted expectations in the country of breaching
the Dow’s $8,000 million new mark. sulfoximine The next largest compound
market, Argentina,
saw estimated sales of $1,271 million. That would be heavily
Recent published patents from Dow AgroSciences divulge activity
down around on the a certain estimated N-sulfoximine 2010 national compound market, with insecticidal which was
reported properties. to have The compound, risen by 28% according in 2010 to the to claims over $1,600 from US million
(Agrow patent No No 615, 20100152245A1 p 24). entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes
The the figures general show structure three of other the active South ingredient American and nations the preferences saw sales
regarding its radicals.
above $100 million in 2011, namely Colombia with $374
million, The preferred Chile at structure $200 million, is: and Ecuador ($168 million).
The next largest markets were closely bunched with Venezuela
at $81 million, followed by Bolivia ($75 million) and Peru ($72
million), while the combined sales in the Central American
states such as Guatemala and Costa Rica amounted to $440
million.
The overall rise for the area was the largest regional increase
in the world, the report notes. Strong economies, favourable
weather conditions, the strengthening of the Brazilian currency,
and The the compound incidence is said of the to be soybean active against disease, pests frog that eye have leaf become spot
(Cercospora
resistant to
sojina),
one or more
as well
insecticides
as rising
currently
demand
on
for
the
cotton
market,
and
as it
either has a new mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted
sugar include cane aphids, supported plant hoppers, growth. leafhoppers, and whiteflies when
used on food and non-food crops.
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