2023-04-21 18:59:59
In October, ANSES had restricted the field of application of phosphine, only authorizing fumigation by indirect contact with cereals. JACQUES DEMARTHON
A decision that unravels one of the biggest regulatory imbroglios of recent years.
A real breath of fresh air. While France ran the risk of no longer being able to export its cereals from April 25, following the imminent restriction of the use of an insecticide (phosphine) in the holds of cereal ships, the Health Security Agency ( Anses) has changed its tune.
This Thursday, the agency adapted its initial text dating from October, adding that the direct treatment of grains with phosphine, initially prohibited and yet required by many customer countries of France’s cereals, may well be accepted.
On one condition: when he “has been satisfactorily proven that the third country of destination requires or accepts this particular treatment in order to prevent the introduction of harmful organisms into its territory”, details the new version of ANSES. A formulation which takes up to the letter the terms of a 2005 European regulation on pesticides.
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But which above all unravels one of the biggest regulatory imbroglios of recent years. The first decision of ANSES had aroused a wave of concern among French cereal producers, who feared that the outlets for some 11.5 million tonnes of their production would be closed. That is a potential shortfall of 3.8 billion euros.
If this affair is closed in the ports, it will leave traces in the relations between ANSES and its supervisory ministries (Agriculture, Ecology, etc.). “All the lawyers in France and Navarre were on the subject”, slides one close to the folder. The subject will in fact have required nearly ten days of arm wrestling between the two parties.
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