“…In Brazil, agrochemicals must be individually registered with the federal government's environmental and health agencies, who assess their quality and safety risks, prior to receiving approval for production or import by the Ministry of Agriculture (Santos, 2012;Fonseca, 2018). Since the requests for registration of newer and more toxic products far outpace the government's capacity for evaluation, the time it takes for a new product to be approved for production/import increased dramatically.…”