List of Banned and Restricted Pesticide Products in China - Regulatory News - Agrochemicals

Pesticides are significant for agricultural industry. However, as the production, application and supervision of pesticides in China have not matured, pesticides may pose potential risks to human health and the ecological environment. In order to safeguard the safety of agricultural production, agricultural product quality and ecological environment and to effectively prevent, control and reduce their application risks, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and other relevant competent authorities released several documents to prohibit/restrict the use of some pesticide products. To make it easier for enterprises to search for banned/restricted pesticide products, CIRS has prepared the List of Banned and Restricted Pesticide Products which covers all the pesticide products restricted/prohibited for use in China (up to 23 Jun. 2017).

Appendix

1. List of Banned Pesticides (40)

S.N.	Name	Reason for Prohibition	Scope of Prohibition	MoA Announcement No. /Date of Issuance	Effective date of prohibition for Sale and Application of Technical Material and formulation with single active ingredient	Effective date of prohibition for Sale and Application of mixtures
1	BHC/HCH	Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)	18 pesticide products officially prohibited for use	MoA Announcement No. 199/5 Jun. 2002 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2 /15 Apr. 2010	5 Jun. 2002	/
2	DDT
3	Camphechlor
4	HHDN/Aldrin
5	HEOD/Dieldrin
6	Nitrofen	Teratogenicity, carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity
7	EDB
8	Chlordimeform
9	MATDA
10	Dibromochloropropane
11	Mercurial	Highly toxic and bio-concentration
12	Arsenic-containing insecticide
13	Plumbum
14	Floroacetamide	Extremely toxic and highly toxic
15	Tetramine
16	Sodium Fluoroacetate
17	Gliftor
18	Silatrane
19	Methamidophos		5 pesticide products officially prohibited for use	MoA Announcement No. 274 /30 Dec. 2003 Announcement No. 632 jointly issued by four ministries /4 Apr. 2006 Announcement No. 1 in 2008 jointly issued by six ministries /9 Jan. 2008 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2 /15 Apr. 2010	9 Jan. 2008	/
20	Parathion-methyl
21	Parathion
22	Monocrotophos
23	Ammonium Phosphate
24	Fenamiphos		10 pesticide products officially prohibited for use	MoA Announcement No. 1586 /14 Jun. 2011	31 Oct. 2013	/
25	Fonofos
26	Phosfolan-methyl
27	Calcium Phosphide
28	Magnesium Phosphide
29	Zine phosphide
30	Cadusafos
31	Coumaphos
32	Sulfotep
33	Terbufos
34	Chlorsulfuron	Long residual effect which can lead to phytotoxicity	5 pesticide products officially prohibited for use	MoA Announcement No. 2032/9 Dec. 2013	31 Dec. 2015	/
35	Metsulfuron-methyl				31 Jun. 2015 (formulation with single active ingredient )	1 Jul. 2017
36	Ethametsulfuron				31 Jun. 2015 (formulation with single active ingredient )	1 Jul. 2017
37	Asomate	Bring high risks to human and the environment and their impurities are carcinogenic			31 Dec. 2015	/
38	Urbacide				31 Dec. 2015	/
39	Pesticide products containing octachlorodipropyl ether	Very harmful to human and animals	1 pesticide product prohibited for use	MoA Announcement No. 747 /20 Nov. 2006	1 Jan. 2008	1 Jan. 2008
40	Paraquat ready-mixture aqueous solution	Very poisonous to human and animals	1 pesticide product prohibited for use	Announcement No. 1745 jointly issued by three ministries /24 Apr. 2012	1 Jul. 2016 (AS)	/

2. List of Restricted Pesticide (21)

S.N.	Name	Reason for restriction	Scope of Prohibition	MoA Announcement No. /Date of Issuance	Date of Prohibition
1	Phorate (3911)	Highly toxic	Prohibition of use on vegetables, fruit trees, tea and Chinese herbal medicine	MoA Announcement No. 199 /5 Jun. 2002 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2/ 15 Apr. 2010	5 Jun. 2002
2	Isofenphos-methyl
3	Demeton
4	Carbofuran
5	Aldicarb
6	Ethoprophos
7	Phosfolan
8	Isazofos
9	Chlorpyrifos	Residual exceeding limits	Prohibition of use on vegetables	MoA Announcement No. 2032 /9 Dec. 2013	31 Dec. 2016
10	Triazophos	Residual exceeding limits	Prohibition of use on vegetables	MoA Announcement No. 2032 /9 Dec. 2013	31 Dec. 2016
11	Dicofol	The impurity is organochlorine and residual exceeds limits	Prohibition of use on tea plants	MoA Announcement No. 199/ 5 Jun. 2002 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2/15 Apr. 2010	5 Jun. 2002
12	Fenvalerate	The impurity is organochlorine and residual exceeds limits	Prohibition of use on tea plants		5 Jun. 2002
13	Daminozide	Carcinogenicity	Prohibition of use on peanuts	MoA Announcement No. 274/30 Apr. 2003 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2/15 Apr. 2010	30 Apr. 2003
14	Omethoate	Highly toxic	Prohibition of use on cabbage	MoA Announcement No. 194/24 Apr. 2002	1 Jun. 2002
14			Prohibition of use on citrus trees	MoA Announcement No. 1586/15 Jun. 2011	15 Jun. 2011
15	Isocarbophos		Prohibition of use on citrus trees
16	Methomyl		Prohibition of use on citrus trees, apple trees, tea plants and cruciferous vegetables
17	Endosulfan	Highly toxic/POPs	Prohibition of use on apple trees and tea plants
18	Fipronil	Bring high risks to bees and it degrades slowly in water and soil.	For public health use or use as seed coating for corns and other dry farmland seeds only	MoA Announcement No. 1157/25 Feb. 2009 Nongnongfa (2010) Notification No. 2/15 Apr. 2010	1 Oct. 2009
19	Methidathion	Highly toxic	Prohibition of use on citrus trees	MoA Announcement No. 2289/22 Aug. 2015	1 Oct. 2015
20	Methyle Bromide	Highly toxic/controlled products under Montreal Protocol (destroy the ozone layer)	For soil fumigation only (under the instruction of professionals)
21	Chloropicrin	Highly toxic

3. List of Pesticide Products Suspended for Registration (13)

S.N.	Name	Reason	MoA Announcement No./Date of Issuance
1	Demeton	Highly toxic	MoA Announcement No. 194 /24 Apr. 2002
2	Phorate (3911)		MoA Announcement No. 194/24 Apr. 2002 MoA Announcement No. 1586/15 Jun. 2011
3	Omethoate
4	Isocarbophos
5	Isofenphos-methyl
6	Methomyl
7	Aldicarb
8	Carbofuran
9	Methidathion
10	Ethoprophos
11	Aluminium Phosphide
12	Methyle Bromide
13	Endosulfan

4. List of Newly Added Pesticide Products Proposed to be Banned/Restricted (for Public Comments) (8)

S.N.	Name	Reason for Prohibition/Restriction	Scope of Prohibition	MoA Announcement No. /Date of Issuance	Date of Prohibition
1	Phorate (3911)	Highly toxic	Prohibition of use on vegetables, melons, tea, sugarcane and Chinese herbal medicine	MoA Announcement (draft) Nongbannonghan (2015) No. 14/2 Jul. 2015	1 Oct. 2015
2	Isofenphos-methyl
3	Carbofuran
4	Endosulfan *	Highly toxic/POPs	Banned for use in agriculture	MoA Announcement (draft) Nongbannonghan (2017) No. 6/12 May 2017	27 Mar. 2019
5	Methyle bromide *	Highly toxic/ controlled products under Montreal Protocol (destroy the ozone layer)	Banned for use in agriculture		1 Jan. 2019
6	Acephate *	Extremely and highly toxic	Prohibition of use on vegetables, melons, tea, fungus and Chinese herbal medicine		1 Jul. 2019
7	Carbosulfan *	Highly toxic
8	Dimethoate *	Highly toxic

Note: * Prohibition deadline has not arrived yet.

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