"Hazardous Substance Committee"

A GROUP of academics is preparing to fight for a total ban in two years on three agrochemicals deemed a threat to public health.

The Public Health Ministry will do everything within its power to discourage the use of three dangerous agrochemicals, following a ruling that paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyfiros will be allowed in Thailand for at least two more years.

THREE ACADEMICS have quit a committee tasked with handling the problems of high-risk chemical pesticides over suspicion of the panel’s ulterior motives.

Several organisations have lambasted the Hazardous Substance Committee’s (HSC) decision to ban three “dangerous” chemicals only in farms that produce household vegetables and herbs.

Hazardous substances committee to rule on future of paraquat today