A Brief Analysis of Pesticide Registration Requirements Chen Maosong
- The pesticide registration system is now widely established.
Apart from a very small number of countries or regions, virtually all countries worldwide have established a pesticide registration system.
- The strictness of pesticide registration requirements is positively correlated with each country's level of political, economic and civilizational development. The more developed a country, the stricter the requirements — and the emphasis differs too. There are exceptions, of course. Some African countries, although less developed, also have relatively strict registration requirements; this is believed to be a legacy of the registration systems of the colonial era.
- I would broadly divide pesticide registration into four types:
- Simple certification type — only a few certificates are submitted, generally no more than 10 pages of documentation, including the ICAM certificate and analytical reports. Such countries are no longer numerous; I have not studied the exact figure in detail, but my estimate is no more than ten countries. The defining feature of this type is that there is no complete set of technical documentation requirements.
- Technical documentation type. Its basic features: there is a complete set of documentation requirements, but basically no other original reports are needed; the emphasis is on efficacy reports. The main regulatory focus is pesticide efficacy — whether it achieves control of the specified pests and diseases.
- Original report type. Its basic features: original reports are required, including original toxicity and toxicology reports and original environmental toxicity reports.
- Five-batch report type: five-batch reports of the technical material are required, tracing the various relevant impurities in the pesticide back to the source, and possibly full analysis reports of all adjuvants in every formulation — monitoring every component of the pesticide thoroughly.