As the end of winter closes in, Biosecurity New Zealand’s fruit fly response in the Northcote area is about to step up again, with the focus on maintaining controls and resuming baiting and more intensive trapping.
Several states sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday over the agency's decision to allow further use of a pesticide linked to brain damage.
Various civil society organizations across the EU are calling for pesticides to be phased out, biodiversity to be restored and farmers to be supported during a food and farming system transformation.
Korean Foods Pty Ltd is conducting a recall of 450g Wellbeing Kimchi; 450g Korean Cabbage Kimchi; 2kg Korea Kimchi; 450g Cabbage Kimchi Bossam; and 800g Cabbage Kimchi Bossam.
US-based Home Market Foods is recalling approximately 53,217lb of frozen ready-to-eat (RTE) beef and pork meatballs over misbranding and undeclared allergens.
Last Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will not ban the use of chlorpyrifos, rejecting a request from environmental groups to prohibit the pesticide.
On Tuesday, the phytosanitary inspection of Republika Srpska (RS), one of the entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), has forbidden imports of 20 tons of walnut from Romania due to increased presence of aflatoxin B1.
After heavy losses caused by hailstorm and then the problem of “rusting” due to heavy rains and humidity, now, with the high temperatures, three more diseases have infected apple trees in many parts of Kashmir.
