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Asian nations lobbied to ban popular herbicide.

Publication: Vietnam Investment Review
Publication Date: 05-JAN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Asian nations lobbied to ban popular herbicide.(Asia news: a summary of the top stories in the Asia Pacific region)

Article Excerpt
CALLS are growing for other Asian nations to follow Malaysia's lead in banning the popular herbicide paraquat.

Malaysia's phased ban on the common weed killer is due to take complete effect by 2005.

However, planters and paraquat makers, which include Swiss chemicals giant Syngenta, are contesting the ban with media ads and studies on the product's merits and costs of its withdrawal....



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