Green pesticides step into the spotlight, building a strong defense line for food safety

The exposure of toxic fruit and toxic vegetable incidents has aroused public concern about the dinner table, and calls for phasing out highly toxic pesticides are growing louder. The gradual elimination of highly toxic pesticides has opened up new market space for green pesticides. Faced with this development opportunity, the pesticide industry should step up product structure adjustment and accelerate the research, development and promotion of new technologies and new varieties, so as to smoothly board the early train of green pesticides.

In recent days, CCTV exposed that strawberries from Beijing were found to contain pesticide residues, triggering consumer panic. At the peak of the strawberry sales season, this caused unsold strawberries in many places. The topic of food safety has never cooled down in recent years, and pesticide residues have spread from vegetables and fruits to tea and rice. From the perspective of end consumers, pesticides are best not used at all, but from the perspective of agricultural growers seeking stable and increased yields, pesticides cannot but be used. Weighing the pros and cons of both, green pesticides stand out. The Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, which will take effect on October 1, clearly stipulates that in order to strengthen food safety, the state encourages and supports the use of high-efficiency, low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides, promotes the research, development and application of substitute products for highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides, and accelerates the phase-out of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides. At the same time, it adds a provision that highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides shall not be used on vegetables, melons and fruits, tea, and Chinese herbal medicines. Under mandatory national regulations and strong public appeals, green pesticides have ushered in a development opportunity, and both research and development and promotion and application will advance with great strides.