New national standard of maximum residue limits for pesticides in food released
Summary: New national food safety standard of Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food is jointly released by Ministry of Agriculture of China and Ministry of Health of China on 6 Dec., 2012 and is planned to be carried out on 1 March, 2013. Tags: maximum residue limits, No. 1 central document of 2013, paraquat SG, Microcapsule formulations, seed treatment agent, pyridine, Anti-dumping investigation, pesticide Imp. & Exp.
On 6 Dec., 2012, Ministry of Agriculture of China (MOA) and Ministry of Health of China jointly released a new national food safety standard Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food (the new standard) and it is planned to be formally carried out on 1 March, 2013, according to CCM’s December issue of Crop Protection China News.
As it is to be carried out on 1 March, 2013, six national standards and ten agricultural industry standards of maximum residue limits of pesticides will be simultaneously abolished, such as national food safety standard Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food (GB 2763-2005), Maximum Residue Limits for Chlorothalonil and Other 11 Pesticides in Food, etc. The overlap of these maximum residue limits in different standards has greatly affected the law enforcement of related government departments. Take chlorothalonil for example, the maximum residue limits of the product in peanut are all set at 0.05mg/kg in the national standard of GB2763-2005 and the agricultural industry standard of NY662-2003. While the maximum residue limits of chlorothalonil in wheat are set at 0.1mg/kg in the national standard of GB2763-2005, but in the agricultural industry standard of NY662-2003, they are set at 0.05mg/kg.
After the abolishment of other standards, the new standard will become the only mandatory national standard for domestic pesticide residue in food safety monitoring system, which effectively avoids the overlap and realizes the unification of the former pesticide residue standards.
It has been three years since the MOA started to revise the former standard in 2009. With the consideration of risk evaluation of pesticide residue in every new standard and the depth study of Codex Alimentarius (CA), all the 2,293 standards were made by the MOA based on the field trial data of pesticides residue, the monitoring data of pesticide residue in agricultural produces and the dietary consumption structures of residents in China. Plus, the revision of the new standard has been appraised through discussion by the members of WTO and accepted by most of them.
There are 2,293 standards of maximum residue limits for 322 kinds of pesticides involving in ten large categories of agricultural produces and food in the new standard. Comparing with the
former standard carried out in 2005, 1,400 new standards have been added into the new one. The new standards of maximum residue limits for pesticides of fresh agricultural produces, such as vegetables (915), fruits (664), edible fungi (17), etc. account the most in the new standard.
Besides all these regular standards, a new concept of pesticide residue limits standard has been put forward and used in the new standard, namely group limits standard of like agricultural produces. It is set based on pesticide residue trial data of the agricultural produce which owns the largest consumption and highest residue risk in a group of like agricultural produces. Thus the group limits standard is the general pesticide residue limits standard of the whole agricultural produces in the group. There are totally 780 group limits standards of 28 groups of agricultural produces in the new standard and they are believed to further expand the covering rate and the application range of pesticide residue limits in agricultural produces.
Although the new standard has added 1,400 new standards and the MOA planned to increase the total amount of the standards of domestic maximum residue limits for pesticides in food to 7,000 (according to the plan in 12th Five-Year Development Plan of Quality and Safety of Agricultural Produces), there is still a large gap between the amount of standards compared with CA (3,820) and some developed countries, such as Japan (50,000) and the US (11,000).
Source: Crop Protection China News 1223 http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_16.html Content of Crop Protection China News 1223： New national standard of maximum residue limits for pesticides in food released No. 1 central document of 2013 again to focus on agricultural issues First paraquat SG gains registration in China Microcapsule formulations eye bright market prospect in China Domestic seed treatment agent industry ready for expanding Anti-dumping investigation shocks pyridine market seriously Huapont to change name into Huapont-Nutrichem Jiangsu Yangnong to expand production by setting up pesticide subsidiary Chinese pesticide Imp. & Exp. analysis in Jan.–Oct. 2012 Crop Protection China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM on 15th&31th of every month, offers timely update and close follow-up of China’s Crop Protection industry dynamics, analyzes market data and finds out factors influencing market development
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