Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Mananya Thaiset tells the press about the decision of the working group to ban three toxic farming chemicals after a meeting at the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry on Monday. Ms Mananya said the NHSC was originally scheduled to meet on Oct 27 to consider the committee's advice to ban paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos. If and when the ban is legally enforced, selling, importing and producing the three chemicals will be against the law. "The reality where anyone can walk into a shop and buy [the chemicals] off the shelf shows that the state regulation of the chemicals was useless," Ms Mananya said, adding that other highly toxic farm chemicals will also be banned in the future. She also denied a large business is looking to import new farm chemicals as a substitute for the three hazardous chemicals.

Source: Bangkok Post October 08, 2019 23:22 UTC