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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

Devolution: Europe’s proposed new agricultural policy

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For farmers up here in Normandy, Brussels – whose Commission regulates farming practices throughout Europe – seems very far away.  And so does Paris.  They say that neither the European Commission nor the French government have a realistic notion of …

By ajh March 25, 2019
In France, News & features

Farmers and Beekepers together ?

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A European Bee Partnership, the first ever integrated approach of its kind in Europe, was launched last Friday 29th June at the outcome of the European Parliament’s Bee Week.

The idea of the Partnersh…

By ajh July 5, 2018
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Air Pollution: Is Paris Gasping? And the rest of the world?

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The Eiffel Tower beckons us from a distance as we drive in to Paris on the motorway from Normandy.   Her graceful shape will never cease to give me that moment’s thrill when approaching – the same thrill I had when I first arrived in this city decade…

By ajh June 13, 2018
In France, News & features

Neonicotinoids : EU proposes stricter bans

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The European Commission proposed on 27 April a ban on the use  – in open air – of three neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.

These substances have already been under partial ban for several years and have been subject of muc…

By ajh April 29, 2018
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