Regulatory Services

Product Regulatory Services

We have the experience and expertise that enable us to assist clients in compiling product dossiers to support applications for registration as required under the Farm Feeds, Fertilizers, Agricultural Remedies & Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947.

Registration Holder Service

We offer a service to non-resident and offshore based clients to act as their authorised representative as a Holder of product registrations on behalf of the client. For those clients who do not have a registered office or legal representative based in South Africa, who wish to obtain registration of their products, we can provide a service to hold product registrations on their behalf. This service also includes a maintenance and product registration renewal function.

We do not, however, involve ourselves in the marketing or sales of client products, which can be undertaken by independent distributor organisations.

All agricultural agrochemicals to be marketed & commercialized in South Africa need to be registered for use under the Farm Feeds, Fertilizers, Agricultural Remedies & Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947.

The full list of requirements for the registration of an Agricultural remedy are contained in the relevant documents obtainable from the NationalDept of Agriculture website (ie Application Form 29225, List 1; List II etc..).

The current minimum requirements pertaining to registrations are summarised as follows:

Registrations are renewable every three years
The Registration of an Agricultural Remedy refers to the formulated product (ie. the product formulation which is to be commercialized.
The technical active ingredient itself cannot be registered (although declaration is made in the submission documents as to: source, manufacturer, contents etc…as per List II.), but each formulated product that is intended for use must be registered.
In order to register an Agrochemical product the following minimum data is required (in addition to the relevant data in List 1 & 2):
Generation of local efficacy data, for each product formulation
- a) in the case of Herbicides: a minimum of 3 field trials on each crop, from at least three geographical areas in main production areas over two growing seasons.
- b) assessment of efficacy of 0.75x; 1x and 2x proposed dosage rates vs currently registered standard.
- c) generation& analyses of terminal residue data in edible crops from three trials, where the PHI is 14 days or less.