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French health experts oppose bill that could reintroduce banned pesticides

A farmer sprays a root insecticide and a herbicide in central France. © AFP - Jean-François Monier

More than a thousand doctors, scientists, and healthcare professionals have signed an open letter denouncing a proposed French law that could weaken the authority of the country’s independent health regulator and allow the return of long-banned pesticides.

Over 1,000 researchers, doctors, and healthcare professionals published an open letter on Monday addressed to France’s Ministers of Health, Agriculture, Labour, and the Environment — the four government bodies overseeing the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses).

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