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Mexico seeks to end the excessive use of pesticides. The government has decreed the prohibition of 35 pesticides of high risk to human health and the environment, in the greatest restriction of this type in more than three decades. The measure has been announced this Wednesday by Julio Berdegué, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, supported by President Claudia Sheinbaum and includes the veto of the production, import, marketing and …
The Government of Mexico announced on Wednesday, September 3, the signing of a presidential decree prohibiting the import, manufacture and marketing of 35 “highly dangerous” pesticide molecules that put food production such as cane, cotton and avocado at risk, among others. “Today or tomorrow at the latest are banned (some pesticides) in Mexico (...) some of them are in many places in the world and there was no ban on their use here. Pesticides …
Mexico Enacts Sweeping Ban on 35 Highly Dangerous Pesticides - teleSUR English
A second group of banned products will be unveiled in the first half of 2026, and a third group will be established in 2027. On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree banning the import, manufacture, and commercialization of 35 “highly dangerous” pesticide molecules that jeopardize food production. RELATED: Mexican Indigenous Peoples Hand Symbolic Staffs of Authority to New Supreme Court “By the end of today, some pestici…
The federal government reported a ban on 35 pesticides due to high levels of risk to health and the environment. The ban was carried out on the basis of scientific evidence and, the authorities stressed that the last time such a process was carried out was in 1991 because of active ingredients. “These substances are prohibited in order to avoid serious adverse effects on human health and the environment, many of which remain in the nature and ti…
The decree on the strategy for the reduction and proper use of pesticides in Mexico covers everything from production and importation to application and final disposal of these substances throughout the country.
Today will be published a decree prohibiting “the import, production, marketing, and use” of 35 molecules with pesticide action in Mexico, and which are highly dangerous due to their toxicity to human, environmental and animal health. One day after the publication in the Official Journal [...] The charge Today will be published decree to ban 35 highly dangerous pesticides: Berdegué first appeared on Contralínea.
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