Today we are going to focus on the last MRL proposal published on 23 November 2020 on Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs website which initiated a public consultation on standard GB2763 and published a MRL draft that covers over 70 active ingredients.
Here the list of actives included on the proposal:
On December 21, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) published new MRLs for the herbicide Halauxifen-methyl on rapeseeds (canola) and the fungicide Oxathiapiprolin on grapes and citrus fruits among others.
The MRLs were first published as proposed values through PMRL2020-30 and PMRL2020-31 and are now displayed in the official Canadian MRL database.
The current MRLs according to this publication are already available in the Homologa™ database.
Moreover, on 23 November 2020 the Chinese Ministry of Rural Affairs published a new MRL proposal. For the time being, this proposal has not been sent to WTO yet.
The MRL currently in force are available at Homologa database along with the three drafts sent to the WTO. The last proposal which is under public consultation will be available as soon as the final draft is published.
Dealing with such amount of documents from different sources and not easily accessible, is not straightforward. Homologa uses different strategies.
On the one hand, when analysing and harmonizing the documents, Homologa´s team has found that some proposals overlap. It means that two or more different MRLs values were proposed for the same active-crop combinations. In these cases, Homologa shows the most recent proposal´s value as the “Future MRL”.
On the other hand, as the original documents are in Chinese, Homologa team´s gets help from our collaborator based on Taiwan for helping with tricky cases. Most importantly, the software created by Homologa´s developers carries out checks to avoid doubles and misleading information. By this way, Homologa database offers a reliable and clean version of all current and future Chinese MRLs in a consolidated and harmonized way which allows cross-comparison among countries.
The current National Food Safety Standard for Maximum Residue Limits in Foods GB2763-2019 covers the maximum residue limits (MRLs) for pesticides in China.
This standard was published on 15 August, 2019 and entered into force on 15 February, 2020.
Since the publication of the current GB2763-2019 standard, China has notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) three draft Maximum Residue Limits:
These documents propose some MRLs being reduced. For example, Methyl bromide MRL in grains has been proposed to be modified from 5 ppm (current) to 0.02 ppm (future).
All the current and proposed China MRLs are up-to-date in Homologa™ database.
So far 26 rapid alerts (RASFF) have been published this month reporting exceedances and usage of non-registered substances in agricultural products coming from Turkey into the European Union.
Acetamiprid, chlorpyrifos-methyl, clothianidin, flonicamid, fosthiazanate, omethoate and pyridaben were the actives which residues in peppers do not comply with the European MRLs.
In oranges, the excedances were detected for buprofezin, chlorpyrifos, esfenvaralate and fenvaralate.
In mandarins, deltamethrin and prochloraz residues were detected
Lastly, acetamiprid excess was detected in grapes.
All these RASFF led to border rejections.
Homologa™ database offers up-to-date MRL values that would help the exporter prevent these situations.
On November 11, Brazilian agency ANVISA published Public Consultations (Consultas Públicas)nº 938-960 on the following active ingredients: 2.4-D, acetamiprid, acibenzolar-s-m, alpha-cypermethrin, azoxystrobin, chlorantraniliprole/rynaxypyr, chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos, cyazofamid, cyprodinil, difenoconazole, dinotefuran, flubendiamide, glyphosate, mandipropamid, melaleuca alternifolia, metalaxyl-m, sulfoxaflor/isoclast and trinexapac-e
These proposed MRLs are already loaded into the Homologa™ database.
On November 9, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) published new MRLs for the insecticides Broflanilide on cereal grains and Flupyradifurone on rapeseeds, among others.
The MRLs were first published as proposed values through PMRL2020-18 and PMRL2020-20 and are now displayed in the official Canadian MRL database.
The current MRLs according to this publication are already available in the Homologa™ database.
These resolutions change MRL values which entry into force today for the following active ingredients- azoxystrobin, cartap-hcl, clonostachys rosea st321u, cyazofamid, difenoconazole, emamectin-benzoate, ethiprole, flubendiamide, flufenoxuron, g. catenulatum j1446, haloxyfop-p-m, oxymatrine, profenofos, pyriproxyfen and tebuconazole
At the same time, the last public consultations propose future MRLs for actives isofetamid and imidacloprid.
These proposed and current MRLs are already loaded into the Homologa™ database.
On November 2, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) published new MRLs for the herbicide Pendimethalin on bulb onions and for the insecticide Cyclaniliprole on oranges and grapefruits, among others.
On July 15, 2020 the WTO (World Trade Organization) published a list of proposed MRLs coming from Chinese government. The document code is G/SPS/N/CHN/1164.
This proposed MRLs are tagged as “future” MRLs and have been uploaded along with the current MRLs into Homologa™ database.
On August 26, new tolerances have been established for residues of the fungicide inpyrfluxam, in or on apple, sugarbeet, corn grain and peanut at 0.01 ppm.
On July 28, new tolerances have been established for residues of Permethrin, in or on "Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C" and "Cherry subgroup 12-12A", among other crops and crop groups.
