From the Amenity Forum:
What are illegal pesticides?
• Trade in illegal pesticides, involving organised criminal gangs, is increasing around the world.
• Often originating in Asia, there is a trend towards importing active ingredients or formulations into the European Union (EU) in order to produce unauthorised packaged pesticide products intended for illegal sales. In addition, illegal pesticide products, ready for sale, are directly imported into the EU.
• Illegal pesticides are being passed off as legitimate pesticide products, for example as counterfeits/fakes or through misuse of parallel trade permits. This is a dangerous and illicit trade which is damaging to the credibility of the legitimate free movement of authorised products within the EU.
Key facts:
• An estimated 7-10% of pesticides on the EU market are illegal.
• Europol estimates that the global market for counterfeit and illegal pesticides is about €4.4bn a year.
Read the full facts here:
AmenityWatchOutRelease02.pdf
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