France reintroduces pesticide plan, this time with EU indicator

BY RAYAN BHARGAVA, MSC

Though delayed due to farmer protests, the latest version of France’s longstanding pesticide reduction plan has been published. This last iteration replaces France’s own indicator of the amount and intensity of pesticide use with a metric adopted by the EU that attempts to refine human health risk assessment, but employs a controversial weighting scheme.

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