Forwarded from another Allotment Holders Asoc.

Subject: Contaminated manure


Dear Fellow Allotment Holders

You are probably aware of the withdrawal of the herbicide aminopyralid
in July last year after a national outcry about the damag caused by
manure contaminated with it.
Dow Agrochemicals have quietly applied for it to be reinstated and this
seems likely to be granted by Govt unless protests from influential
groups and individuals can prevent it.
I have put a petition on the No 10 website
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/aminopyralidban/
and ask as many as possible of your members and their contacts to sign
it. For those who are unfamiliar with the problem, full details of the
story which started in early 2008 can be found at
http://www.glallotments.btik.com/p_C...ed_Manure.ikml

Thank you in advance

John Shobbrook

Chair, Black Horse Allotments Association, Wednesbury,
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

In article , Martin
writes

http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/prc_home.asp?id=2501
The place to send your complaints is

Blame UK not the EU for allowing the raising of the level
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_...1902584956.htm
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Martin


Will forward this to my horticultural society. Thanks Martin.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk