Tag: Pesticides
Development Minister Schulze: Export ban planned for dangerous pesticides
Status: 02/11/2022 12:47 p.m Millions of people around the world suffer from accidental poisoning from pesticides. Development Minister Schulze now wants to impose an export ban on dangerous pesticides. Selling…
Agriculture: The Dangerous Dependence on Pesticides – Economy
Domestic apple production is impressive. Fruit growers in this country harvest more than a million tons in a good year. That is enough to cover almost 70 percent of domestic…
Öko-Test examined fruit mueslis – and found pesticides
Muesli under a magnifying glass Öko-Test examined 50 fruit mueslis – and found some of them forbidden pesticides Öko-Test put 50 different types of muesli under the microscope © Öko-Test…
Insects contaminated with pesticides in protected areas – knowledge
It was almost exactly four years ago that the small Entomological Association in Krefeld became famous overnight. At that time, the predominantly volunteer employees managed to scientifically prove what had…
The Council of State orders the government to reduce the use of pesticides
For the NGO France Nature Environnement, this is no less than a “new victory”. The Council of State has ordered the government to reduce the use of pesticides in Natura…
Towards a “strong initiative” to phase out pesticides, announces Macron
Emmanuel Macron pledged Friday to carry “a strong initiative (…) of accelerated exit of pesticides” when France will have the rotating presidency of the European Union, while French agriculture is…
The Council of State strengthens the rules for spraying pesticides
The Council of State, in a decision rendered on Monday, asks the government to strengthen within six months the regulations governing the spreading of pesticides “to better protect the population”.…
Better protection for insects: more protection areas, fewer pesticides
As of: 25.06.2021 7:39 a.m. The Bundestag has decided on a number of measures to improve the protection of insects. It’s about stricter rules for the use of pesticides and…
More than 80 percent of the streams exceed limits for pesticides – knowledge
Of Tina Baier Almost three kilograms of pesticides are distributed annually per hectare in the fields in Germany. Much more of it than previously thought ends up in bodies of…