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The Flemish region has prohibited the sale of glyphosate herbicides to individual consumers, following two other regions of Belguim (Wallonia and Brussels), which put the same ban in place earlier this year and last year respectively. In May 2017 Belgium’s federal minister of agriculture, Willy Borsus,...

The largest study so far on the fraught question of whether neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees is providing new ammunition for those who argue against...

The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published a list of 30 questions Wednesday to obtain stakeholder input to facilitate the drafting of...

On Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed in a Wisconsin federal court against Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup brand herbicides, and Scotts Miracle-Gro Company,...

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban glyphosate, reform the EU pesticide approval process, and set mandatory targets to reduce pesticide use...

Three U.S. nonprofit groups filed  a suit Thursday against Mississippi based Sanderson Farms, Inc. for falsely advertising products that contain a wide...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General released a report Wednesday recommending that before approving pesticides,...

Rising use of glyphosate, the world’s most heavily applied herbicide, is putting the population at risk of significant health problems, according...

It was over a year ago when MEPs Bart Staes, Benedek Jávor, Heidi Hautala and Michèle Rivasi first sent the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA)...

The French Senate has adopted the European resolution to ban non-agricultural pesticides across Europe, Senator Joël Labbé  announced on Wednesday....