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Plans will hit ornamentals and retail hard, Adlam warns
Horticulture Week
19 December 2008
Ornamentals growers could lose many "very effective and familiar products" due to the EU pesticide proposals that will be considered on 12 January, according to consultant John Adlam.
The final criteria that affect which active substances will be removed are still being defined - especially the term endocrine disruptors - but Adlam is still able to say that the effect of the proposals will be drastic for growers and garden centres. "More than 40 products or around 80 per cent will be removed...
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