Why doesn the prohibition apply to commercial fertilisers?
It is not necessary to use environmental protection legislation to duplicate the role of the Fertilisers Act 1985. This Act regulates the sale of fertilisers so as to: • protect human health by ensuring that unsafe levels of heavy metals and other contaminants that may occur in fertilisers do not make their way into the human food chain, and • facilitate international trade by ensuring that agricultural products destined for export markets comply with requirements of international trading partners in relation to the presence of heavy metals and other contaminants, and • protect the environment by better informing purchasers of the composition of fertilisers and by restricting the proportion of certain substances that fertilisers may contain.
