China: Pesticide Naming To Be Standardized
19 December 2007 Wang Shoucong, a senior official with the Ministry, said brand names are expected to be reduced from the current 16,000 down to 1,700 to lessen grower confusion. Pesticides can be traded under generic names, commercial brand names, and trademark names at present, and some manufacturers have created a number of different names for one pesticide product in order to make higher profit margins. One example is the insecticide imidacloprid, which is traded under more than 700 different names.
Wang said the current pesticide regulations did not have restrictions on commercial names, which allows some manufacturers to exaggerate their commercial names while minimizing generic names on the packaging, resulting in even agricultural experts hardly being able to distinguish the actual active ingredient used in some products.
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