Tuesday, May 17, 2011

2011 - David Suzuki Foundation and Equiterre - Pesticide Free? Oui! - 2011 progress report: A comparison of provincial cosmetic pesticide bans

2011 - David Suzuki Foundation and Equiterre - Pesticide Free? Oui! - 2011 progress report: A comparison of provincial cosmetic pesticide bans
Download PDF at http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/reports/2011/pesticide-free-oui-2011/

"This report briefly presents the approaches adopted by the five Canadian provinces that currently restrict the use and sale of cosmetic pesticides: Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, as well as Alberta's more limited restriction on pesticide/fertilizer mixtures. It also reviews the process to date in British Columbia and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the different provincial frameworks and highlight the best models, corresponding to the recommendations made in our 2008 report."

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