News & Insights

On March 8, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) published a corrigendum to an existing MRL proposal to correct both terminology and the MRL amount.

The corrected proposal will display in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database on March 9, 2021.

On March 8, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published amendments to the monographs for teflubenzuron, deltamethrin, methomyl, bixafen, aminopyralid, phosphine, diflubenzuron, clothianidin, and thiophanate-methyl (links in Portuguese).

Relevant MRLs from these amendments will be added to the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database by March 9, 2021.

Recently, the U.S. EPA established tolerances for residues of picarbutrazox in or on various commodities.

Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before May 4, 2021. Relevant MRLs will be available in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database on March 9, 2021.

Recently, the European Union made available proposals to amend its food additive regulations related to the use of polyols in certain energy-reduced confectionery products and steviol glycosides and rebaudioside M produced via enzyme modification of steviol glycosides from Stevia. 

The European Union's food additive regulations are included in the BCGlobal Food Additive Database. If you are interested in subscribing, please contact BCI.

On March 1, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published a correction to their national veterinary drug regulation.

Corrected information will display in the BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database on March 6, 2021.

Recently, the Eurasian Economic Union posted a draft amendment to TR CU 021/2011, proposing veterinary drug MRLs for a variety of substances. 

Comments on this proposal are due by April 6, 2021. Bryant Christie is in the process of translating and analyzing this regulation for entry into the BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database. Relevant MRLs will be added to the database in the coming weeks.

Recently, Russia's Chief State Sanitary Doctor approved SanPiN 2.1.3685-21 establishing a new consolidated list of pesticide MRLs. 

This regulation is effective on March 1, 2021. Bryant Christie is in the process of translating and analyzing this regulation for entry into the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database. Relevant MRLs will be added to the database in the coming weeks.

On March 3, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published draft amendments proposing to add or revise the monographs for beta-cypermethrin, cypermethrin, fluazinam, iprodione, and trifloxystrobin. 

Comments are due by May 1, 2021. Relevant proposed MRLs will display in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database on March 5, 2021.

Bryant Christie Inc. is very pleased to announce that Matt Lantz, Vice President for Global Access, has been accepted as a lifetime member by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). 

Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. CFR’s goal is to start a conversation in the United States about the need for Americans to better understand the world. 

The Council on Foreign Relations is first and foremost a membership organization whose individual and corporate members represent a group unmatched in accomplishment.  Based throughout the country and around the world, CFR members are exposed to top talent and expertise brought together to generate intellectual conversation regarding the most relevant topics in foreign policy and international relations. 

CFR’s membership represents a group unmatched in accomplishment and diversity in the field of international affairs.  Members include Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, James Baker, Madeline Albright, and Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin, author and CNN host Fareed Zakaria, and actor Angelina Jolie.

By joining CFR, Matt is being recognized as a leading voice in the country on international agriculture trade policy issues.   As part of the CFR, he will represent Bryant Christie Inc. and provide a voice on international agriculture trade to the leaders of foreign policy in the United States. 

The CFR is a trusted and indispensable resource on the foreign policy choices facing the United States.  More information on the group can be found at www.cfr.org.

On February 26, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue level for phenmedipham in strawberries. 

Proposed MRLs from this reasoned opinion will display in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database on March 2, 2021.