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  • September 18, 2016
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Food Authority EFSA gives an extra swing to the pesticide treadmill


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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), in the holiday period [1], published a 'protocol' for the implementation of a major pesticide derogation, Article 4.7 of Regulation 1107/2009. The derogation will be used for pesticides that are currently still on the EU market but are about to be banned based on the 2009-pesticide Regulation that includes "cut-off" provisions for classified carcinogenic, reprotoxic or endocrine disruptive pesticides. [2] Examples are the pesticides Glufosinate  (causing birth defects), Epoxiconazole (birth defects, liver cancer), Flumioxazin   (toxic for reproduction & for endocrine organs), Pymetrozin (cancers, reduction fertility & effects on endocrine organs). The derogation will allow use in specific crops in case of a "serious danger for plant health" in spite of the full ban of these pesticides.

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