EU: Prior Notification of Consignments
EU: Pesticides, Standing Committee
China: MRLs Update
Canada: MRLs Update

Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency has announced the adoption of the MRL for dithianon previously notified (see previous post).
Scientists Sequence the Complete Almond Genome

EU: MRLs Update
EU: Increased Official Controls

The European Commission notified the World Trade Organization of the Draft Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/625 and (EC) 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 669/2009, (EU) No 884/2014, (EU) No 2015/175, (EU) No 2017/186 and (EU) 2018/1660.
EFSA: Acibenzolar‐S‐methyl, MRLs Review
EU: Pesticide Withdrawals

The approval of the active substances chlorpropham, dimethoate and desmedipham has not been renewed (see previous posts: chlorpropham, dimethoate and desmedipham).
EFSA: Call for Data