Resolution – RDC number 428, 7 October 2020

Regular notification 2020-10-15
G/SPS/N/BRA/1788

Description

This Resolution changes the Resolution – RDC number 177, 21 September 2017, which provides for the ban on the active ingredient Paraquat in pesticides in the country and for transitional risk mitigation measures; and regulates the application of the stocks of the active ingredient Paraquat based  products under possession of the Brazilian farmers in the crops management of the agricultural harvest of 2020/2021.

This Resolution will be also notified to the TBT committee.

Keywords

Maximum residue limits (MRLs); Food safety; Human health; Pesticides