03/09/2018 (Agence Europe) – Since 1 September, a ban on the use of phyto-pharmaceutical products containing neonicotinoids has been in force in France. The national ban was voted in 2016. The ban concerns five active substances which have a particularly toxic impact on the environment. “The ban makes our country a precursor when it comes to protecting pollinators”, the French authorities state in a press release published during the evening of 31 August. At European level,...