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Food Safety: pesticide residues – or not – in your food?

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The European Food Safety Authority EFSA has just published its 2017 annual report on pesticide residues in food in EU Member States, Iceland and Norway.

Whereas t…

By ajh June 30, 2019
In News & features

Gardeners beware: labels can lie

0 Spraying a Rosa (rose) with pesticide (active ingredient, Thiacloprid).

[multilanguage_switcher]56.9% of pesticides* tested on the French market do not comply with regulations, according to figures published today by the French Economics Ministry. ** Most anomalies refer to gardening products with inadequate labeling …

By ajh January 17, 2017
In France, News & features

France’s environmental dilemma

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Great laws; too bad they’re not applied

Two expert reports on the state of the environment in France were published this July, one by the French National Agency for Health Security Anses (Agence nation…

By ajh September 28, 2016
In France, News & features, Normandy Notebook
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