A new list of eight testing institutions was released on Dec 31, 2012, after passing the qualification inspection previously organized by China MEP. The MEP Announcement 14 of 2009 released on 23 March 2009 shall be abolished concurrently. Except that the Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicological under Zhejiang University is crossed out from the 2009 MEP-approved list (Announcement 14 of 2009: The First Seven Accredited Labs to Produce Eco-toxicological Test Data for China NCSN), the other six labs have maintained their status. Besides, two additional research and testing oriented companies have been included in the newly released batch, namely Jiangsu Hope Analytest Inc. and Suzhou Xishan Zhongke Drug R&D Co., Ltd, testing data generated from which are applicable for Band 1 Regular Notification. Thus so far there are ten qualified testing institutions to provide eco-toxicological testing data accepted under China NCSN(consisting of the new batch of eight labs and two labs approved from the MEP Announcement 78 of 2010).

Quite unlike 2009, the new list of testing institutions came along with their applicable notification type since the MEP plans to adopt a categorized management system upon the labs. Prior to the qualification application, the testing institutions would have to specify their to-be-qualified testing items and scope under China NCSN. Therefore, the labs with qualification limited to simplified notification might not be considered if the notifiers have their minds on regular notification. 

Table 2. List of MEP-approved Eco-toxicological Testing Institutes (No.1 to No.8 from  MEP Announcement 77 of 2012, No.9 and No.10 from MEP Announcement of 2010)