Hazardous Substance Committee agrees to ban 3 toxic pesticides
Twenty-six members of the Hazardous Substance Committee have reached a verdict to approve a planned ban on three toxic pesticides – Paraquat, Chlorpyrifos and Glyphosate – which are widely used in agriculture, Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul posted on his personal Facebook page on Tuesday.
Here’s the voting results:
Paraquat – 21 votes for a ban, 5 votes for a limit on usage;
Chlorpyrifos – 22 votes for a ban, 4 votes for a limit on usage;
Glyphosate – 19 votes for a ban, 7 votes for a limit on usage.
Anutin thanked “every party which supports the banning of the three pesticides” and “congratulated Thais for having government officials and academics who have ethics and integrity”.
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