In November 2017, the European Union had renewed the glyphosate approval for 5 years, but Emmanuel Macron had pledged to have it banned in France by 2021. However, despite this commitment, the French president announced yesterday during a debate in the Drôme that it will be “impossible to be done with glyphosate in 3 years.” “I know […]
Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is confirming the current registration of pest control products containing hexazinone in Canada with the label amendments following a special review of all registered hexazinone products, based on the 1998 Norway regulatory decision to prohibit all uses of hexazinone in Norway due to environmental concerns. Any person may […]
Controlled release fertilizers encompass one or more plant nutrients in a coated form that delay their availability for plant uptake and use after application. Controlled release fertilizers offer several advantages over the conventional fertilizers. They reduce toxicity to seedlings and contribute to enhanced agronomic safety. Rapidly escalating global population along with the increased efforts for […]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has taken a major step towards becoming a fully open data organisation by committing to publish the scientific data it uses for EU-wide monitoring programmes and surveys and many of its risk assessments. In a report, EFSA lays out how it intends to share data collected in areas such […]
The Chinese government has announced its 2019 import and export policy for fertilizers, making significant changes to the export tax rates for all fertilizer products. The export tax for phosphate rock has been revised down to zero percent from 10pc in 2018. The tax on all other fertilizer products — including MOP, SOP, NOP, NPKs […]
The UK Pesticide Guide is the key authoritative reference for advisors, growers, contractors, local authorities and many others managing the impact of pests and diseases. Updated for 2019, this essential reference for all pesticide products and adjuvants approved for use in agriculture, amenity, forestry and horticulture, includes eight completely new active ingredient profiles and many […]
“It is the remit of politics, NGOs and the media to make inquiries about the work undertaken by authorities,” says Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel. “However, we often see that the complexity of the conventional procedure for the re-approval of the pesticidal active substances is not understood properly. If people are of the opinion that […]
As reported by the Associated Press, France’s pesticide ban applies to all public parks, gardens and forests including famed Parisian green spaces like Jardin des Tuileries, Bois de Vincennes and Jardin de Luxembourg. For now, pesticides can still be freely used — but one would hope in respectful moderation — at French cemeteries. The manicured […]
Plans to boost trust in the EU approval procedure of pesticides, by making it more transparent and accountable, were put forward by Parliament on Wednesday. MEPs agreed that the public should be granted access to the studies used in the procedure to authorise a pesticide, including all the supporting data and information relating to the […]