Brazil approves bromocyanamide for coffee beetle control

Recently, the Brazilian government announced that the Brazilian government has approved the registration of pesticides containing the active ingredient bromocyanamide for the control of coffee beetles. Coffee growers have been lobbying the government to approve the use of bromocyanamide pesticides since the government announced a ban on the use of endosulfan to control beetles. At present, bromocyanamide has been approved in the United States, the European Union, Canada and Japan.

In March, the Brazilian government declared emergency quarantine after the beetle had invaded the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil's largest coffee-growing region. The chairman of the Brazilian Coffee Commission said last month that drought-hit crops are now in harvest and that the impact of insect pests on them is not yet obvious.

In February this year, at the request of DuPont, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the toxicity level test of bromocyanamide, which proved that the pesticide had no adverse effects on human health.