Herbicide spray Hongdou 09 "[fact check] German officials hit Taiwan pharmaceutical companies and officials in the face, confirming that" herbicide has been banned in the European Union. "

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Less than four months after paraquat, which can be fatal after a sip, the Taiwan government plans to open up another herbicide, solid herbicide, as a pre-harvest desiccant for red beans. However, after the announcement of the pesticide residue tolerance of 2ppm, not only consumers were worried about the risk of food safety, it was reported in the "upstream and downstream" that herbicide has neurotoxicity, high reproductive toxicity, and after it was banned by the European Union in 2018, even farmers sprayed on the front line were also worried about the health of themselves and their families.

In order to allay the concerns of diners and users, the Council of Agriculture has repeatedly stressed that all standards are subject to rigorous scientific research and expert evaluation. However, after "upstream and downstream" reporters checked EU data and visited Germany, France, Sweden, and other experts one by one, they discovered the truth of fixing and killing weeds that Taiwan officials and pesticide factories did not want the public to know.

Germany: "weeding has been banned in the European Union", hitting Taiwan pharmaceutical companies and officials in the face

Due to Taiwan's limited knowledge of the European Union, the Council of Agriculture invited a distinguished guest at a press conference on June 23. Qin Baohua, chairman of the Taiwan Branch of the Association for Sustainable crop Development (CropLife Taiwan), explained the doubt: "Grass killing is due to commercial considerations, and the failure to apply for renewal of the license does not mean that the European Union is banned." What is more noteworthy is that Qin Baohua is also an associate of BASF, a big herbicide manufacturer.

Under the name of the high-sounding "Association for Sustainable crop Development", it is the most influential pesticide and biotech lobby group in the world, promoting pesticides, genetic modification technology, and controlling seeds all over the world, with the exception of BASF, Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, Dow, DuPont and other major companies before the merger. Monsanto alone injected US $530000 (NT $16 million) to the International Association for Sustainable crop Development (CropLife International) in 2015. Some experts involved in the government review process are also consultants to these large international companies, and there is no interest avoidance, which has aroused many people in Europe and the United States to question the fairness of the evaluation report.

Feng Haidong, former director of the Bureau of Prevention and Inspection, said at an expert meeting held by the Council of Agriculture of Taiwan on 6 July: "the reason for killing weeds is to give up because the operators have not applied for it, not to ban it, but to return from the approved state to the unapproved state. Don't think so strongly, mainly because there are doubts in nature, and don't be alarmist."