Changsha City Issues the 2017 Veterinary Drug and Pesticide Quality and Safety Monitoring Plan
In order to strengthen the quality management of veterinary drugs and pesticides, intensify the crackdown on counterfeit veterinary drugs and pesticides, and ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products from the source, this implementation plan is hereby formulated.
I. Monitoring Locations
Changsha City urban area, Changsha County, Liuyang City, Ningxiang County, Wangcheng District.
II. Monitoring Time
Routine monitoring is carried out throughout the year, regular monitoring is conducted once every quarter, and special surprise monitoring is decided on a temporary basis.
III. Monitoring Targets
Veterinary drug and pesticide manufacturing enterprises, operating enterprises, large-scale livestock and poultry farms, and agricultural product production bases.
IV. Task Allocation
1. The Municipal Animal Health Supervision Institute and the Plant Protection and Quarantine Work Station shall respectively undertake the sampling tasks of 15 batches and 10 batches in the veterinary drug and pesticide operating segments in the urban area.
2. The relevant districts and counties (cities) shall undertake the sampling tasks of 35 batches and 40 batches in the veterinary drug and pesticide production, operating and use segments respectively (see attached table).
V. Work Requirements
1. Each district and county (city) shall carefully organize sampling, and carry out supervision and inspection of the sampled units; upon discovering violations, they shall be seriously investigated and dealt with in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of Veterinary Drugs, the Regulations on the Administration of Pesticides, and the Provisions on the Procedures for Agricultural Administrative Penalties.
2. Carefully carry out sample inventory and collection of various information, including purchase method, supplying unit, personnel and contact telephone number, purchase time, purchase quantity, etc.
3. Sampling requirements:
(1) Veterinary drugs
Monitoring sampling inspection: products of veterinary drug manufacturing enterprises newly established within the jurisdiction or with newly added dosage forms in the current year; products of veterinary drug manufacturing enterprises that have not been sampled and inspected since 2016.
Follow-up sampling inspection: products that have been listed in veterinary drug supervision and sampling inspection bulletins since 2016 and products of enterprises that have previously undergone veterinary drug GMP flight inspections: (1) Florfenicol powder; (2) quinolone drugs (ofloxacin, pefloxacin mesylate, ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, etc.) injections, oral liquids, powders, soluble powders; (3) Lincomycin hydrochloride injection; (4) Amoxicillin soluble powder; (5) Penicillin sodium/potassium for injection; (6) Gentamicin sulfate injection; (7) Astragalus polysaccharide injection, etc.
Targeted sampling: products of enterprises that have been listed as non-compliant in two sampling inspections by the Ministry of Agriculture since 2016.
Identification sampling inspection: (1) products suspected of changing their formulation: fluoroquinolone chemical drug preparations, tilmicosin preparations, lincomycin hydrochloride preparations, tylosin premix, etc.; (2) products suspected of adding prohibited drugs: florfenicol powder; (3) traditional Chinese veterinary drug products with added chemical drugs: Astragalus polysaccharide injection, Feizhu San, Jianwei San, Yinqiao San, etc.
(2) Pesticide sampling method: random sampling shall be the main method. Pesticide products shall be randomly sampled in the city's pesticide market, with emphasis on sampling the main pesticide products used in agricultural production, especially insecticides containing abamectin, chlorpyrifos, lambda-cyhalothrin, acetamiprid, beta-cypermethrin, emamectin benzoate, and imidacloprid; fungicides containing carbendazim, chlorothalonil, and thiophanate-methyl; and herbicide products containing atrazine, nicosulfuron, acetochlor, mesotrione, and metolachlor.
Pesticide monitoring: the test samples shall be sent to the Provincial Pesticide Identification Institute and the Municipal Agricultural Product Testing Center for testing respectively.