Independent: The Government has been accused of failing to act on increasing evidence of the environmental damage done by “nerve-agent” pesticides, after France banned a pesticide product still widely in use by British farmers on their crops.
Cruiser OSR, which contains the neo-nicotinoid insecticide thiamethoxam, was banned for use on rapeseed by the French Ministry of Agriculture. Two studies, published earlier this year, have strongly suggested a link between the increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides…

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