Strengthening pesticide supervision and ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products - three bright spots of the newly revised Regulations on Pesticide Management.

Original title: Strengthen pesticide supervision and ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products - three bright spots of the newly revised Regulations on Pesticide Management
Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Wei and Gao Jing
Premier Li Keqiang has signed a decree of the State Council announcing the newly revised Regulations on Pesticide Management, which will come into effect on June 1, 2017.
of pesticides is directly related to the quality safety and ecological environment of agricultural products, so it is necessary to strengthen pesticide management.
Zhou Puguo, director of the Pesticide Inspection Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that as an important administrative regulation in China's agricultural sector, the introduction of regulations will further strengthen pesticide management, in order to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products, promote the construction of resource-saving, environment-friendly modern agriculture, to provide a solid and strong legal basis.
requirements for access to the pesticide industry are more stringent
regulations strictly control the registration, production and operation of pesticides at an important threshold. It eliminates the relatively low threshold of temporary registration, clearly in China's production and export of pesticides need to apply for registration, improve the pesticide production licensing system, raw material procurement, product quality control, commissioned processing and assembly and other production practices put forward clear requirements, and clear pesticide production enterprises responsible for the safety and effectiveness of the pesticides produced. Production enterprises are required to strengthen quality management, in strict accordance with product quality standards for production, the implementation of product traceability electronic information code management, so that the whole process of production can be checked, quality control.
regulations also provide for the implementation of pesticide licensing and restrictions on the use of pesticides fixed-point management system, requiring pesticide operators should purchase pesticides from legitimate channels, establish purchase and sale accounts, not to process or install pesticides. Pesticide manufacturers and operators should recall pesticides if they are found to be seriously hazardous or at greater risk.
requirements for pesticide guidance services have been further improved
said Qiao Xiongxuan, president of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the scientific use of pesticides is an effective measure to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products. Strengthening the guidance service for pesticide use is conducive to complementing the short board of pesticide use supervision and ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products from the important source of agricultural production.
regulations clearly stipulate that pesticide users shall use their drugs reasonably, use pesticides in accordance with the scope of use, methods and dosages of pesticide labels, and harvest agricultural products at safe intervals marked by labels. The use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides in the production of vegetables, fruits, tea, fungi, herbal herbs, etc. is prohibited. Agricultural production enterprises, farmers' professional cooperatives and specialized pest control service organizations shall establish records of pesticide use. The agricultural sector and related scientific research and teaching units shall provide technical training and technical services for pesticide users. Pesticide users should protect the environment and beneficial organisms and rare species. The State has gradually reduced the use of chemical pesticides through the promotion of biological control, physical control and advanced application of drugs and other measures.
The penalties for illegal production and operation continue to increase
In order to increase the penalties for illegal activities, the regulations further tighten legal liability: to clarify that the agricultural sector and its staff have not performed their duties of supervision and management in accordance with the law, to be punished according to law and even to investigate criminal responsibility; The equipment and raw materials produced shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law, and those who use highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides for edible agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits shall be punished with fines and other penalties, and criminal liability shall be investigated according to law, and if the pesticide registration certificate is revoked, their application for pesticide registration shall no longer be accepted within 5 years;
addition, the regulations also unified the responsibility for the management of pesticide production, which was originally the responsibility of multiple departments, into the agricultural sector, which will greatly reduce the operational burden of pesticide enterprises while solving the problem of duplication of supervision and the co-operation of regulatory blind spots.