China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) will no longer approve commercial brand names for pesticides from Jan. 8 next year, and all pesticides must be traded under generic names as of July 1, 2008, the MOA announced Wednesday.
Wang Shoucong, a senior official with the MOA, said pesticide commercial brand names were expected to be reduced from the current 16,000 to 1,700.
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, such as imidacloprid, a widely used insecticide, which is traded under more than 700 different names.
Wang said the current pesticide regulations did not have restrictions on commercial names, thus some manufacturers tended to exaggerate their commercial names while minimizing generic names on the packaging resulting in even agricultural experts hardly being able to identify the actual product.
Source: Xinhua
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