Four Pesticides Could Show U.K.'s Post-Brexit Regulation Plans

Post-Brexit regulation of controversial pesticides including glyphosate and neonicotinoids could be test cases for how far the U.K. is prepared to go in diverging from the European Union.

While the U.K. will no longer officially be part of the European Union come Saturday morning, the U.K. will continue to follow EU rules on pesticide authorizations during a transition period lasting at least through Dec. 31.

But when the transition period ends, the U.K. could choose to go its own way, with big implications for several significant pesticides, namely glyphosate, neonicotinoids, chlorpyrifos, and asulam.

Anti-glyphosate activists in front of the European Commission in Brussels on Nov. 9, 2017.

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Glyphosate

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