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Stricter pesticide regulation on the cards |
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by Green Horizon
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
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The EU’s Environment Committee voted on September 12 to
take a more precautionary approach in regulating the sale of
pesticides in the EU. Various environmental groups believe
that theMEPs’ shift of emphasis is a vast improvement on the
European Commission’s originally weak proposal. The key
component of the new approach is a clear rejection of a
three-zone solution in which countries are forced to accept
existing pesticide protocols of neighbouring countries.
This vote shows that [the European] Parliament has
begun taking into account increasing scientific evidence
that pesticide exposure, even at low doses, is a threat to
people’s health,” said Monica Guarinoni, pesticides policy
officer at the Health & Environment Alliance. |
