News & Insights

On March 31, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare posted Food Safety Update 0331 No. 1 affecting numerous active ingredients.

Relevant MRL changes should appear in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database and BCGlobal Vet Drug Database on April 8, 2020.

On February 25, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare posted Food Safety Update 0225 No. 1 affecting numerous active ingredients.

Relevant MRL changes will appear in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database and BCGlobal Vet Drug Database on March 6, 2020.

On January 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a final rule revoking all tolerances for residues of piperazine. MRL changes from this amendment are effective February 3, 2020.

MRLs from this amendment will display in the BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database on January 30, 2020.

On January 15, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare posted Food Safety Update 0115 No. 1 affecting numerous active ingredients.

Relevant MRL changes have been made to the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database and BCGlobal Vet Drug Database.

On December 26, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published a regulation, in Portuguese, amending MRLs for veterinary drugs. 

The BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database will be updated following translation and analysis of the regulation.

On December 12, New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries published Proposals to amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Levels for Agricultural Compounds) Food Notice - December 2019. The proposal includes draft pesticide and veterinary drug MRLs.

Comments on these proposed MRLs must be received by February 11, 2020. Relevant proposed MRLs will display in the BCGlobal Pesticide and Vet Drug MRL Databases by December 24, 2019.

Recently, the U.S. FDA established an import tolerance for emamectin benzoate on salmonids.

This MRL will be available in the BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database on December 24, 2019.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) recently announced proposed MRL changes for iminoctadine, thifluzamide, benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, methyltetraprole, and permethrin. These changes were reported via the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service.

Relevant proposed MRLs will be available in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database and BCGlobal Vet Drug MRL Database on November 23, 2019.

On November 19, the Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) published APVMA Gazette No. 23, 19 November 2019. Pages 36-37 of the gazette list draft MRLs.

Relevant proposed MRLs will be available in the BCGlobal Pesticide MRL Database on October 9, 2019.

On November 11, the European Union published Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1881 amending an MRL for diflubenzuron.

The amended MRL is currently available in the BCGlobal Veterinary Drug MRL Database.