Changes to regulations in Great Britain mean more than 100 items are now allowed to carry more pesticides when sold to the public, ranging from potatoes to onions, grapes to avocados, and coffee to rice.

For tea, the maximum residue level (MRL) was increased by 4,000 times for both the insecticide chlorantraniliprole and the fungicide boscalid. For the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, classed as a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the MRL for beans was raised by 7.5 times.

The purpose of the pesticide MRL regime is to protect public health, wildlife and the natural environment. Campaigners said the list of pesticides included reproductive toxins and carcinogens and that the weaker MRLs reduced protections for consumers in Great Britain. Northern Ireland has retained the EU MRLs.

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    3 months ago

    You seem to misunderstand how it works.
    EU doesn’t make laws, the EU regulations were written into UK law, just as with any other member country. So the regulation most definitely still existed for UK after Brexit, and had to be removed from the UK law to achieve this “progress of greater freedom”.
    So what is revealed is that UK ACTUALLY changed it for the worse, just as many predicted they would.

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      3 months ago

      I dont get what you are saying tbh i never said EU made the laws in there, you just repeat what i (indirect) told. That UK no longer have / follow those rules / regulations / recommendations from the EU.