South Africa’s regulations on agricultural pesticides are “ancient” according to a public health specialist. Many of the active ingredients in pesticides still used on local crops have already been ...

Farm workers and consumers should be worried, says public health expert. But industry body says food security depends on the pesticides in use. Many pesticides banned in the European Union are used in ...

Many pesticides banned in the European Union are used in South African agriculture. A public health expert says this poses a danger to farm workers and consumers, but the pesticide industry says food ...

Leslie London, head of the division of public health medicine at the University of Cape Town, says the weed killer, glyphosate, widely used in South Africa but banned in some EU countries, can be ...