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Taiwan Council of Agriculture Proposed Alignments of Pesticide Labeling with WHO/FAO/UNGHS

In parts of Taiwan national 10 years Action Plans of reducing pesticide uses by half, Council of Agriculture (COA) published the draft of Agro-pesticides Labelling Management Regulation on December 26^th, 2018 to stipulate classification and labelling requirements of pesticide active ingredients and their products, in harmonization with UN GHS, WHO/FAO classification and labelling practices.  To meet the goals of modernizing agro-pesticides management, this proposed amendments focusing on strengthening proper labelling, bringing the formats in line with international standards, and classify agro-pesticides by their hazardous properties, i.e. GHS hazards and classifications.  Labelling of acute toxicity to bees and mode of actions (MoA) are also included in this amendment draft.  International notification such as WTO TBT notification will be in place soon for commenting.

Agro-pesticides Labelling Management Regulation (draft)

https://gazette.nat.gov.tw/egFront/detail.do?metaid=103896&log=detailLog

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