Editing Pesticide (section)

===International===
In many countries, pesticides must be approved for sale and use by a government agency.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook |last=Willson |first=Harold R. |publisher=University of Minnesota |year=1996 |editor-last=Radcliffe |editor-first=E. B. |location=St. Paul |chapter=Pesticide Regulations |editor-last2=Hutchison |editor-first2=W. D. |editor-last3=Cancelado |editor-first3=R. E. |chapter-url=https://ipmworld.umn.edu/wilson-regulations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713110412/https://ipmworld.umn.edu/wilson-regulations |archive-date=July 13, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pest-aside.com.my/Act_149-Pesticides_Act_1974_Malaysia_Kota_Kinabalu.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704063557/http://pest-aside.com.my/Act_149-Pesticides_Act_1974_Malaysia_Kota_Kinabalu.pdf |archive-date=2018-07-04 |url-status=live |title=Laws of Malaysia. Act 149: Pesticides Act 1974 |date=Jun 1, 2015 |website=pest-aside.com.my |access-date=Dec 10, 2018}}</ref>

Worldwide, 85% of countries have pesticide legislation for the proper storage of pesticides and 51% include provisions to ensure proper disposal of all obsolete pesticides.<ref name="NationsOrganization2019">{{cite book |author1=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |author2=World Health Organization |title=Global situation of pesticide management in agriculture and public health: Report of a 2018 WHO–FAO survey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGe_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 |date=14 November 2019 |publisher=Food & Agriculture Org. |isbn=978-92-5-131969-7 |pages=25–}}</ref>

Though pesticide regulations differ from country to country, pesticides, and products on which they were used are traded across international borders. To deal with inconsistencies in regulations among countries, delegates to a conference of the United Nations [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] adopted an International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides in 1985 to create voluntary standards of pesticide regulation for many countries.<ref name=":3" /> The Code was updated in 1998 and 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPP/Pesticid/Code/PM_Code.htm|title=Programmes: International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides|publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization|UN FAO]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202034101/http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpp/pesticid/Code/PM_Code.htm|archive-date=December 2, 2008|access-date=October 25, 2007}}</ref> The FAO claims that the code has raised awareness about pesticide hazards and decreased the number of countries without restrictions on pesticide use.<ref name="code">{{cite web |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |date=2002 |url=http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPP/Pesticid/Code/Download/code.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130404190746/http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPP/Pesticid/Code/Download/code.pdf |archive-date=4 April 2013 |title=International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides}}</ref>

Three other efforts to improve regulation of international pesticide trade are the [[United Nations London Guidelines for the Exchange of Information on Chemicals in International Trade]] and the [[Codex Alimentarius|United Nations Codex Alimentarius Commission]]. The former seeks to implement procedures for ensuring that prior informed consent exists between countries buying and selling pesticides, while the latter seeks to create uniform standards for maximum levels of pesticide residues among participating countries.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Reynolds JD |date=1997 |title=International Pesticide Trade: Is There any Hope for the Effective Regulation of Controlled Substances? |journal=Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=69–105 |url=http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/landuse/vol131/reyn.html |jstor=42842699 |archive-date=May 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527062748/http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/landuse/vol131/reyn.html |jstor-access=free}}</ref>