At could be the consequences?” commissioned the same time, the EU imports food grown using by a coalition of civil society groups, which these substances, leading to exposure of EU provides an analysis of the likely impacts of consumers via residues in imported foods and an EU halt to the manufacture and export of also putting EU farmers in an unfair competition. [...] A Based on these figures, it was possible to ban would mean that the availability of highly extrapolate the total number of jobs that would hazardous pesticides in importing countries potentially be at risk in the seven main European would decrease, which would stimulate the countries as a result of a hypothetical EU export impetus to replace them with safer alternatives. [...] Examples include For example, paraquat was banned in Europe in the lack of specific rules and training on the use of 2007, and in 2008 the Maximum Residue Level pesticides, a higher proportion of the population (MRL) of this substance for food products was working in agriculture, the presence of vulnerable decreased to the lowest level of quantification. [...] This clearly shows the capacity of the EU to lead by example and to stimulate other countries to follow EU as global benchmark setter good practices, with the outcome of a further reduction in the global supply and use of highly The combined result of these risk factors makes hazardous agricultural pesticides. [...] At the same time, the facts and well as testimony to the potential role of the figures detailed in this report demonstrate that European Union as a global benchmark setter stopping the export of agricultural pesticides for chemical regulation.
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