Triazole ban in EU parliament ban in EU parliament
Date:07-17-2008
New proposals returned to the EU Parliament would ban triazole-based products, which are needed to grow cereals.
"These are one of the greatest ever threats to European food production and would have far more serious consequences than a tax on pesticides,” warned leading arable specialist Keith Dawson at the Cereals Solutions event in Dundee, organised by the Scottish Crop Research Institute, the Scottish Agricultural College and the Scottish Society for Crop Research (SSCR).
More than 300 active substances used in current crop protection products would be banned under the proposals. Britain, Ireland, Poland, and Hungary have already objected to the proposals as they currently stand.
If the ban goes into effect, the first products could be outlawed as early as 2010.
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