Thiamethoxam related news: Market and safety regulatory dynamics coexist

09/15/2025 09:55:16

Recently, there have been many developments in the market supply and demand, as well as food safety supervision, of the chemical raw material thiamethoxam.
From the perspective of market prices, in the second week of August 2025, the insecticide market as a whole showed a supply-demand game, and the price of thiamethoxam raw material remained relatively stable, with a quoted price of 53000 yuan. In terms of application, thiamethoxam is widely used for crop pest control due to its high efficiency, low toxicity, strong internal absorption and conductivity. For example, many agricultural and rural departments in Shandong have recently released multiple procurement projects involving thiamethoxam, which is used in agricultural production activities such as wheat pest control and wheat stem rot control.
However, the use of thiamethoxam has also brought some food safety issues. On August 20, 2025, the Market Supervision Administration of Huayin City, Shaanxi Province issued a notice stating that the content of thiamethoxam in onions sold by multiple dealerships in the city and scallions used in a hospital did not meet the national food safety standards, and some samples had thiamethoxam content far exceeding the standard limit of 0.3mg/kg. Previously, the Chengdu Market Supervision Bureau also found during spot checks that mangoes sold in supermarkets exceeded the limit of thiamethoxam pesticide residues.
However, there are also some positive news. On August 28, 2025, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued a notice to lift the strengthened monitoring and inspection of thiamethoxam in Chinese produced scallions and their processed products, which will help with the export trade of related agricultural products.
In terms of technical research, the Testing Center of the Chinese Academy of Thermal Sciences has made new progress in the research of biosensing detection technology for the pesticide thiamethoxam, successfully constructing a biosensor for high-sensitivity detection of trace amounts of thiamethoxam. Professor Xu Hanhong's team at South China Agricultural University has also made new achievements in the study of the mechanism of thiamethoxam absorption and transport in rice, which will help to better utilize thiamethoxam for crop pest control.