SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

Germany is marketing 35 toxic pesticides out of 55 that should already be withdrawn from EU market, denounces PAN Europe

Strasbourg, 04/07/2022 (Agence Europe)

Of the 55 pesticides officially classified as candidates for substitution because they are particularly toxic and persistent, 35 are still marketed in Germany in about 310 authorised spray products, the NGO PAN (Pesticide Action Network)Germany denounced on 1 July.

PAN Europe has identified 12 of the 55 substances in question as being particularly dangerous. Eleven of them are used in Germany, including ipconazole, a fungicide that is toxic for reproduction, lambda-cyhalothrin, a toxic...