Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 3/15/21


The [European] Commission proposed a 50 percent cut in the risk and use of pesticides by 2030 as part of its Farm to Fork strategy last year but that ambition is not legally binding unless the Commission includes it in a law that is then approved by MEPs and national capitals. Andrew Owen-Griffiths, head of the plants unit at the Commission’s health and food safety department, said the Commission could propose mandatory targets when it redrafts a directive on using pesticides sustainably.

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