PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF AUSTRALASIA EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF Americas EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF PEOPLE AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF BRIEF COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF Peru lifts PRODUCTS agchem NEWS IN suspensions BRIEF <strong>and</strong> AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH MEETING AMERICAS confirms EUROPE Products bans NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF Peru has ordered ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS the withdrawal IN BRIEFNEWS of three IN BRIEF AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF pesticide active ingredients within EUROPE three NEWS months IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> lifted the suspension of all COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF registrations COMPANIES ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA of products based NEWS on another IN NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS BRIEF two. IN BRIEF The Ministry of Agriculture’s AMERICAS EUROPE plant <strong>and</strong> NEWS NEWS animal IN IN BRIEF health BRIEF service, the Senasa, has confirmed ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA the EUROPE bans of NEWS the insecticides, IN BRIEF NEWS IN aldicarb BRIEF <strong>and</strong> endosulfan, ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN ROUND-UP BRIEF <strong>and</strong> ordered the PRODUCTS removal NEWS of all IN insecticides/plant BRIEF growth AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF BRIEF COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH AMERICAS EUROPE Products NEWS NEWS AGROW IN IN BRIEF BRIEF | NEWS No 633 IN BRIEF | February 8th 2012 PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS IN BRIEF AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF Costa Rican ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA coury NEWS annuls IN NEWS BRIEFIN agchem BRIEF AMERICAS EUROPE NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF approval EUROPE provision NEWS IN AGROW BRIEF | No 564 | March 27th 2009 ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN ROUND-UP BRIEF PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF The Costa Rican AMERICAS Constitutional NEWS IN Court BRIEF has annulled a provision of Decree 33495 PEOPLE that enabled the use of incomplete reference profiles to determine ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS equivalence ROUND-UP NEWS of generic IN BRIEF pesticide products for registration AMERICAS purposes. NEWS The IN decision BRIEF came in late December PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> is “retroactive EUROPE to NEWS the date IN BRIEF when the regulation came into effect without ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA prejudice to NEWS NEWS acquired ROUND-UP IN BRIEF rights in good faith”. The regulators PRODUCTS based AMERICAS NEWS on lead IN NEWS arsenate. BRIEF IN BRIEF Resolution 0013/2012 case was brought PEOPLE MEETING by the agrochemical industry association, PEOPLE grants registrants ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS of the ROUND-UP three <strong>ais</strong> NEWS 90 IN days BRIEF from February 1st the Asoproa. ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Decree 33495 was NEWS passed IN BRIEF in late 2006 to bring WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF to withdraw their AMERICAS products NEWS from IN BRIEF the market. In contrast, it has the country’s MEETING approval process into line with the UN FAO’s lifted the suspensions PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF equivalence AMERICAS PEOPLE system (<strong>Agrow</strong> NEWS No IN 513, BRIEF EUROPE NEWS on the IN insecticide, BRIEF methamidophos, <strong>and</strong> p 14). www.agrow.com COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF the herbicide, BRIEF EUROPE ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA paraquat. NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS NEWS ROUND-UP IN BRIEF The unanimous COMPANIES Court decision NEWS is IN an BRIEF “outst<strong>and</strong>ing precedent” for MEETING The prohibitions Latin America, PEOPLE COMPANIES CropLife Latin NEWS America IN BRIEF PRODUCTS PEOPLE MEETING NEWS are to ROUND-UP be formally sent to the secretary general PEOPLE told <strong>Agrow</strong>. It applauds www.agrow.com COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF of the customs ASIA/AUSTRALASIA union, the Andean NEWS Community, IN BRIEF within a week. Costa Rica’s “commitment to health <strong>and</strong> the environment by www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA endorsing thorough PRODUCTS NEWS PRODUCTS evaluation NEWS NEWS IN NEWS IN NEWS IN ©Informa BRIEF IN of BRIEF BRIEF IN UK BRIEF Ltd 2009 The customs MEETING union includes INTELLIGENCE Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador <strong>and</strong> MEETING BRIEF pesticides”. The Central Peru. The withdrawals AMERICAS PEOPLE follow NEWS IN an BRIEF environmental risk analysis American customs PRODUCTS union NEWS negotiations IN BRIEFshould profit from AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF www.agrow.com www.agrow.com COMPANIES report from the COMPANIES NEWS Ministry’s NEWS IN directorate IN BRIEF COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF general of agrarian the verdict as PRODUCTS Costa Rica NEWS has abstained IN ©Informa BRIEFUK from Ltd 2009discussion on environmental MEETING harmonised regulations MEETING ASIA NEWS PEOPLE COMPANIES affairs, IN BRIEF the NEWS DGAAA. IN BRIEF It found the <strong>ais</strong> to be MEETING in the area while awaiting the Court’s “extremely dangerous” PEOPLE www.agrow.com COMPANIES to NEWS the environment, IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> “extremely decision, the EUROPE PEOPLE association NEWS adds. IN BRIEF . www.agrow.com EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 toxic” to birds ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PRODUCTS <strong>and</strong> bees. NEWS NEWS IN NEWS IN BRIEF BRIEF IN BRIEF Industry representatives EUROPE NEWS had IN contested BRIEF the Decree in the WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA MEETING PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF The lifting of suspensions on methamidophos BRIEF <strong>and</strong> paraquat www.agrow.com Constitutional EUROPE Court on NEWS environmental IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> health protection www.agrow.com PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF www.agrow.com ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 through the same PRODUCTS Resolution NEWS allows IN BRIEF an evaluation of the grounds for almost four years (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 523, p 14). toxicological, MEETING MEETING ecotoxicological <strong>and</strong> agronomic profiles of the <strong>ais</strong>, as AMERICAS MEETING AMERICAS NEWS AMERICAS NEWS IN NEWS IN BRIEF recommended EUROPE IN BRIEF EUROPE PEOPLE by the NEWS DGAAA, IN to BRIEF be completed within 18 months. BRIEF www.agrow.com EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 PEOPLE AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF Peru issued bans EUROPE on the NEWS use IN of BRIEF aldicarb, endosulfan, lead AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF arsenate <strong>and</strong> EUROPE methamidophos, NEWS IN BRIEF www.agrow.com among other <strong>ais</strong>, late last year n Paraguay to name late data submitters ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 www.agrow.com (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 629, p 21). www.agrow.com ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 The Paraguayan ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES NEWS IN NEWS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA authorities will NEWS BRIEF IN NEWS issue IN BRIEF IN in BRIEF early BRIEFMarch a list of Dow’s AMERICAS MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF those companies that had failed to submit on time confidential AMERICAS <strong>new</strong> sulfoximine NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF compound ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF MEETING information on ASIA/AUSTRALASIA five-batch analysis NEWS for IN formulated BRIEF pesticide Recent published AMERICAS patents NEWS from IN Dow BRIEF AgroSciences divulge activity products <strong>and</strong> PRODUCTS active ingredients NEWS IN for BRIEF agricultural use. The plant around a certain AMERICAS N-sulfoximine NEWS IN compound BRIEF with insecticidal n properties. Argentina The updates compound, agchem according registration to the claims dem<strong>and</strong>s from US health <strong>and</strong> seed PEOPLE quality service, the Senave, set a deadline of PEOPLE www.agrow.com patent No 20100152245A1 entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted December 31st PEOPLE ASIA/AUSTRALASIA 2011 for companies to present the data amid ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES NEWS IN NEWS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS BRIEF IN NEWS IN BRIEF ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 Argentina (6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl has updated rules for sulfoximines” pesticide IN BRIEF of active June ingredient 2010, describes fears of a lack PEOPLE of confidentiality (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 630, p 18). The <strong>and</strong> the product general registrants. structure of the The active national ingredient animal <strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> the plant preferences ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF PEOPLE regarding its radicals. revalidation of the registration process complies with resolution health inspection ASIA/AUSTRALASIA service, the Senasa, NEWS IN issued BRIEFa resolution in EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF 446/06, the Senave says. It dem<strong>and</strong>s wider studies on impurity November, The preferred detailing structure PRODUCTS rules is: NEWS that IN had BRIEF not been anticipated in profiles, synthesis MEETING processes, physicochemical properties, as well earlier legislation. PEOPLE Data requirements on the origin of <strong>ais</strong> <strong>and</strong> MEETING PEOPLE as toxicological, ecotoxicological <strong>and</strong> agronomic characteristics. formulated products are growing, the Senasa says. For example, MEETING PEOPLE The service also MEETING notes that it has corrected a computer the need for those applying ©Informa to register UK Ltd 2009 products formulated in PEOPLE malfunction that seemed to have lost pesticide import requests more than one plant was not foreseen. Resolution 822/2011 AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF www.agrow.com including confidential information. The data has been retrieved, sets the requirements <strong>and</strong> procedures that registrants must www.agrow.com the records enabled <strong>and</strong> system is working well, it says. follow when recording MEETING additional information on: the origin of MEETING www.agrow.com an ai, a <strong>new</strong> formulation plant for an www.agrow.com already registered product, 1 www.agrow.com MEETING n Bolivian agchem container recycling up or a <strong>new</strong> formulated MEETINGproduct with various places of origin of a ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF determined ai. All such inclusions are for products <strong>and</strong> <strong>ais</strong> of the Bolivian rural workers, the national pesticide industry association The compound AMERICAS is said NEWS to be active IN BRIEF against pests that have become www.agrow.com <strong>and</strong> other partners collected or recycled some 172 tonnes of empty www.agrow.com same ©Informa www.agrow.com resistant composition to one or <strong>and</strong> more purity insecticides as the currently original on <strong>and</strong> the must market, specify as it ©Informa UK UK Ltd Ltd 2009 2009 plastic pesticide containers in 2011, ©Informa the UK national Ltd 2009 <strong>new</strong> either plant has address, a <strong>new</strong> mode town of <strong>and</strong> action country, or an atypical the Senasa one. Pests notes. targeted agrochemical www.agrow.com include aphids, plant hoppers, leafhoppers, <strong>and</strong> whiteflies when industry association, the Apia, reports. ©Informa The UK Ltd association’s 2009 previously www.agrow.com used on food <strong>and</strong> non-food crops. released figures PEOPLE ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 for such collections amounted to some 152 tonnes For more details, ASIA/AUSTRALASIA log in to <strong>Agrow</strong> NEWS IN BRIEF INTELLIGENCE Intelligence <strong>and</strong> read through profile No. P0232. covering the 12 months until the end of June 2011. That included some 78% that had been tripled rinsed. By that time, some 450 tonnes had been collected since the Apia programme was initiated For enquiries, please email the <strong>Agrow</strong> Intelligence editor, Leila Nabih, at leila.nabih@informa.com. PEOPLE in 2005. Annual collections first reached 100 tonnes in 2009 MEETING (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 593, p 19). www.agrow.com ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 ©Informa UK Ltd 2009 www.agrow.com 1 18 www.agrow.com ©Informa UK Ltd 2012 MEETING www.agrow.com
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