date:Aug 30, 2019
Following the publication in early August of a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which confirmed the risk posed by chlorpyrifos and methyl chlorpyrifos at a genotoxic and neurological level, the European Commission will propose to member countries of the European Union (EU) not to renew the authorization for the use of these pesticides as of January 2020.
Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used in agriculture, was authorized for the first time in the European Union in 2006, alt