ChemLinked: Fewer Pesticides Met Standards in 2013, a Sign of Chinese MoA’s Closer Watch
23 January 2014 In 2013, 83.6% of Chinese pesticides met the minimum quality standard, down from 87.3% in the same period a year ago, ChemLinked’s Fang Lin reported.
The results are from China’s Ministry of Agriculture report that stemmed from its quality monitoring initiative on pesticide products.
The drop is a sign that MoA has tightened regulatory supervision, ChemLinked reported, adding that a total of 3,404 samples and 3,417 labels from 2,145 distributors and 998 manufacturers were tested. MoA found that 2,846 samples met quality standards but 26% of labels were incorrectly labeled.
According to ChemLinked, among the 3,404 samples tested under quality standards, 2,053 were insecticides, 725 fungicides, 568 herbicides and 58 miscellaneous. 84.6% of the single formulated products met quality standards while 80.3% of combination products met quality standards.
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