China sets 2025 deadline to phase out ten ais

摘要

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has set a 2025 deadline for the country to discontinue the use of ten “highly toxic” crop protection active ingredients. The development follows a proposal by China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), to undertake surveillance of pesticide residues and eliminate the use of toxic pesticides. Usage on field crops will cease for: the insecticides, aldicarb, ethoprophos, isocarbophos, phorate, isofenphos-methyl, carbofuran, omethoate, and methomyl; the rodenticide, aluminium phosphide; and the soil fumigant, chloropicrin.