Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it

Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it

The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows.

The ingredient, diquat, is widely employed in the US as a weedkiller in vineyards and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate and paraquat drops in the US.

But the new piece of data suggests diquat is more toxic than glyphosate, and the substance is banned over its risks in the UK, EU, China and many other countries. Still, the EPA has resisted calls for a ban, and Roundup formulas with the ingredient hit the shelves last year.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries.

    Notice Canada is not listed as a country that bans diquat. It is legal and available here.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Whenever I read here Canadians here hoping for EU membership, I think about this: I’m sorry mates but you having chosen the insanelly unsafe rules of the US for all kinds of things, most notably food safety, means your regulations are totally incompatible with merelly Single Market membership (which would literally allow free export of that dangerous shit to the rest of the Single Market), much less EU membership.

      Decades of regulatory alignment with the US means that all manner of Canadian products are dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed into the EU, and now that your southern neighbor has shown its true colors beyond any doubt you should start unravelling that regulatory shit-show and align more with EU style regulation but, having lived in the UK when Carney was the head of the Bank Of England, I doubt he’s the man for it: it’s my impression that he’s a man who knows who butter his bread - and that ain’t the common folk - and it’s for them he works.