Balancing act: enhancing crop protection and regulatory processes for a sustainable future

Balancing act: enhancing crop protection and regulatory processes for a sustainable future
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Andrew Pearson
Crop protection tools are an essential component of modern horticulture. They are critical to food availability and affordability, ensuring we produce food of good quality that is not impacted by pests and diseases and limiting crop losses that contribute to the high quantities of food wasted.Regulation of these tools has to strike a balance. These chemicals are designed to kill or control pests, diseases, or weeds. They must not impact human or ecological health more broadly than that. We have come a long way in the 60 years since Ra...

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