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Q: Should China implement a real name system for pesticides?
Anyone else notice how poisoning cases are all over the news here lately? There's the story of the student murdered by his room-mate who put poison in the water dispenser, and now there's the re-opening of the Zhi Ling poisoning case 19 years ago that left her brain-damaged. Many of these cases seem to use readily available pesticides like rat poison to kill the victims. If there's a real-name system for buying knives, then wouldn't it make sense to have one for pesticides too? I'm not saying it would be effective, but given the real-name knife rule, this would be in line with the logic here. Also, there'd be no harm in controlling the farmers a little more too who over-use chemical growth enhancers and fertilizers.
11 years 4 days ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It wouldn't help. In a society where the majority of the market is the black market, people can source their pesticides from where it is "easiest". The extensive corruption will void any value of such a system, no matter if it is to protect against using pesticides to murder or if it is farmers who use excessive amounts in the chase of profits.
I completely agree with the suggestion in theory, but I think Scandinavian is right. Until there's a greater rule of law in place here, no amount of Real Name regulations will stop awful things like this from happening.
It's a bit different for things like train tickets, which are tightly managed government (right?) operations of a fixed scale. But it would be a nightmare to supervise every little back alley shop that opens up and sells pesticides.
hazardous materials labels would be a good start including the united nations number of the chemical. un number plus 4 digits , but i dont see this on the trucks that carry the material like most countries require.
