The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) is opposed to two draft implementing regulations from the European Commission aimed at raising the maximum residue levels (MRLs) for fipronil and tricyclazol in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin (amending Annexes II and V of Regulation 396/2005) to facilitate imports.
The objection to the plan to double the MRL for fipronil in sugar cane was adopted by 44 votes to 14, with 27...