France suspends use of one of Europe’s most popular pesticides after farm workers fall ill
The move to ban products based on metam sodium followed reports of three cases of “respiratory poisoning” in the Maine-et-Loire department in the past two weeks, and another case of poisoning in the department of Finistère, the ministry of agriculture said in a statement on Friday.
Metam sodium, one of the most widely used pesticides in the US and Europe, is considered a “probable human carcinogen” by the US Environmental Protection Agency and is not meant to be applied directly to plants.
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François de Rugy, Agnès Buzyn, Bruno Le Maire et Didier Guillaume suspendent l’utilisation des produits phytopharmaceutiques contenant du métam-sodium | Alim’agri
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