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Early in 2001 the Brazilian government've been at combating domestic illegal pesticides, especially in the past year, the
financial crisis has led to see more low-cost pesticide products, the Government is to increase the crackdown. Year 2008
alone, the Brazilian authorities seized nearly 40 tons of illegal pesticides, currently on the registered products are
further checks to ensure that these products do not violate the registration requirements.
And not long ago, the world's largest manufacturer of generic pesticide subsidiary of Makhteshim Agan Industries Milenia
Agrociencias Brazil because of illegal pesticide formulations and the sale was to change the Brazilian Ministry of Health's
allegations. Health watchdog Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency (the Anvisa) command Milenia Agrociencias five pesticides
formulations to immediately suspend the production and sale for a period of 90 days, and for further investigation. The five
pesticides are: herbicides Herbimix (atrazine + simazine), Trop (glyphosate) and Posmil (Alat-chun); pesticides Pyrinex 480
SC (chlorpyrifos) and plant growth regulators Podos ( Section amine fluoride), Anvisa seized a total of 2.5 million liters to
change the dosage of pesticide products. Milenia told the authorities that they sold the pesticide formulations with the
Brazilian market, similar products of other companies only made a small change, but also the safety of preparations using
advanced processing technology. Makhteshim-Agan in the Brazilian market, there are 60 kinds of products in the sales of each
product has 5 different dosage forms, Milenia company is sold on the surface of these products, but in the absence of
Makhteshim-Agan permitting, through the component replacement more effective pesticide formulations change, and then sold on
the market in Brazil.