As the 13th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Specifications (JMPS) to be held in Belgium this June is drawing near, the R & D Department of Rotam CropSciences Ltd. is busy making supplementary experiments and data. At this FAO/WHO JMPS, the company will submit three pesticide standards including 250g/kg Deltamethrin WDG, Chlorothalonil TC and 720g/L Chlorothalonil SC for evaluation. So far, Rotam has submitted eight international pesticide standards to FAO and WHO, of which two were officially published by the FAO this February and one was approved by the WTO and is going to be published soon. The company is way ahead of other domestic companies in the industry.
"The FAO and the WHO are the most authoritative organizations in the world. To formulate international standards approved by the FAO and the WHO and manufacture products meeting such standards means a global sales pass. Rotam is keeping up with well-known international companies such as Syngenta and Bayer to gain a bigger say in the international market,' said Garth Drury, Head of Global Regulatory and Government Affairs of Rotam CropSciences Ltd., who had worked for Bayer for 15 years. According to Mr. Drury, before the last FAO/WHO JMPS, only one Chinese enterprise had participated in the formation of two international standards organized by the FAO, and Rotam is obviously by far the only domestic enterprise that has done so.
Rotam, which is gradually consolidating its international and domestic position with the formation and issuance of a series of international standards, is current busy with product registration and sales around the globe. In recent years, Rotam's sales has grown at an annual average of 25%, and its total operating revenue in 2013 was 183.3 million dollars.