Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), through its Secretariat of Agricultural Defense, has cancelled the registration of Syngenta's insecticide Engeo Pleno, registration number 06105, at the end of an administrative infraction process opened in 2021. The cancellation was formalised in Ato nº 59, published in the Diário Oficial da União on 18 September 2026, and immediately prohibits the product's production, import, export, marketing and distribution in the country.

The decision closes process 21052.023531/2021-78. The Special Commission for Agricultural Defense Appeals (CERDA) issued Decision No. 90/2026 upholding the cancellation and rejecting Syngenta's request to have the penalty converted into a fine or settled through an adjustment agreement.

The legal basis cited is Article 17, item VI of Law No. 7,802 of 1989, Brazil's core pesticide law, with Article 86, paragraph 5 of Decree No. 4,074 of 2002, provisions that allow cancellation where a product's approved formula or manufacturing conditions have been altered without authorisation or fraudulently. Neither the notice nor the trade coverage that followed says which ground applied, and MAPA has published no further detail on the infraction.

Stock already sold to farmers and distributors before the cancellation remains legal to use until its labelled expiry, so the immediate on-farm effect falls on future seasons rather than product in growers' hands. Several Brazilian agribusiness outlets independently confirmed the registration number, act number and process details after the gazette notice.

Syngenta had not issued a public statement on the cancellation at the time of the report, and it is not yet clear whether the company will pursue further legal challenges beyond the CERDA appeal now rejected.

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Source: Global Agriculture