Co-op Tells Suppliers to Curb Pestcides

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Monday, 07 February 2005

Retailers are becoming increasingly responsive to consumer concerns about chemical residues in food. The Co-op supermarket has told its suppliers worldwide to discontinue or phase out the use of almost 100 pesticides. The Co-op has involved experts, some of them members of the government's Advisory Committee on Pesticides, to develop a pesticide assessment test. It categories chemicals according to their toxicity and the potential health hazard they represent.
Source: www.soilassociation.org