BRA/1487
WTO/SPS
BR Brazil
  • 07 - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
  • 08 - Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  • 09 - Coffee, tea, maté and spices
  • 10 - Cereals
  • 12 - Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  • 18 - Cocoa and cocoa preparations
  • 24 - Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
2019-07-06
2019-03-18

HS Code(s): 52, 0809, 1006, 0803, 18, 09, 1212, 0805, 08011, 24, 0808, 080720, 071040, 1201, 1001, 0806; ICS Code(s): 13, 65

Draft resolution number 613, 28 February 2019, regarding the active ingredient G01 - GLYPHOSATE of the Monograph List of Active Ingredients for Pesticides, Household Cleaning Products and Wood Preservers, published by Resolution - RE n° 165 of 29 August 2003, on the Brazilian Official Gazette (DOU - Diário Oficial da União) of 2 September 2003. Language(s): Portuguese. Number of pages: 5

This Draft resolution is the result of the risk assessment for the active ingredient G01 - GLYPHOSATE ofthe Relation of Monographies of Active Ingredients of Pesticides, Household Cleaning Products and Wood Preservers, and proposes the following changes:

-     Rural workers and the population near the farming fields:

·         Prohibition of EW formulation (oil-in-water emulsion);

·         Rotation between workers for aplication activities with tractors (mixing, filling and applying);

·         Personal protective equipment (PPE) and period for reentry of the worker into the treated area;

·         Drift reduction technology;

·         Safe zone of 10 meters when there is population 550 meters way from farming fields;

·         Definition of exposure and tolerance limits for rural workers.

-     Urban use and food consuming:

·         Adjustment for cronic exposure tolerance limits;

·         Definition of acute exposure limits;

·         Prohibition of the concentraded product for amateur gardening; Prohibition of POEA (polyoxyethyleneamine) above 20% in glyphosate products.