The European Commission will decide not to renew the marketing authorisation for 'chlorothalonil', a fungicide widely used in agriculture, the institution confirmed on Monday 1 April.
The representatives of the Twenty-Eight (on the PAFF Committee) approved the Commission's proposal to this effect on 22 March. This was based on an EFSA opinion which concluded that the approval criteria were not satisfactory due to the fact that genotoxicity of residues of this substance cannot be excluded...