ApocaDocs: Parliament climbdown could save key weedkillers and fungicides

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Posted Fri Oct 24 2008: from Farmers Weekly:


	Parliament climbdown could save key weedkillers and fungicides http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1224864620 In the parliament's first reading of the controversial pesticides approval legislation, MEPs voted for a proposal that would remove any pesticide that triggered any of the three criteria (persistence, bio-accumulation and long-distance environmental transfer) for an active ingredient to be termed a "persistent organic pollutant" (POP). By contrast, the European Commission and EU agricultural minister both say a substance will be called a POP only if it meets all three criteria.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Whew! That was a close one, diflufenican, chlorotoluron, mesosulfuron-methyl, and the rest of the gang -- wasn't it!