- Council Agenda 15 February 2007
The aim of the project was to collect redundant agricultural chemicals in the Canterbury region, to reduce the risks to human health and the environment posed by these substances, and to assist New Zealand in meeting its obligations under the Stockholm.
- Breaking the Pesticide Chain
There are several reasons for this lack of progress: tested in exactly the same way as chemicals the cost of registration can be prohibitive crop and pest specific and so have small markets the requirement to prove efficacy acts as a barrier to approval.
- Bitter Rains
In the summer of 2002, twenty years after airplanes soaked the Chatham County community of Gorgas with herbicides that killed animals and gardens and made people sick, the Department of Agriculture has announced plans to weaken aerial spray regulations,.
- Breaking the Pesticide Chain_ALL.qxd
There are several reasons for this lack of progress: tested in exactly the same way as chemicals the cost of registration can be prohibitive crop and pest specific and so have small markets the requirement to prove efficacy acts as a barrier to approval.
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