What is MAFF doing to ensure that a more integrated approach towards the monitoring of pesticides occurs?
This issue has not been completely ignored in the past. In the case of anticholinesterase pesticides, MAFF has considered the possibility of combination effects between the different substances, and looked at the need for further research but this is not fully satisfactory. We are aware of the issue it was raised at the ACPs Open Meeting in September. The FSA has set up a working group of the Committee on Toxicology to look at cumulative exposure through the diet, of compounds with similar mechanisms of toxicity. So there is some work going on in this area, which is very important for the future assessment of pesticides. Finally, in the next few years, what would you personally like to achieve at MAFF in relation to pesticides? I would like to feel that pesticide safety reviews are being appropriately dealt with, and that this process could pre-empt some of the fire-fighting pesticide scares that I have had to deal with in the past. I want to have examined the bigger issues, already me
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