Use of Amitrole and Isoproturon,herbicides that possess been linked to cancer, infertility and birth defects, and is prohibited from 30 September The European commission has ordered a ground-breaking moratorium on two endocrine-disrupting weedkillers that possess been linked to thyroid cancer,infertility, reproductive problems and foetal malformations.
Use of Amitrole and Isoproturon will now be banned from 30 September across Europe, and after an EU committee voted unanimously for the first ever ban on endocrine-disrupting herbicides.
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Source: theguardian.com