PesticidesWed, 15 April
French startup Agriodor has raised €15 million to expand its olfactory biocontrol platform, including a sugar beet product that reduced green aphid pressure in field trials.
PesticidesFri, 10 April
A new US policy push for glyphosate production has intensified political attacks on the herbicide, but FactCheck.org says the scientific evidence remains mixed and regulators still do not treat carcinogenicity as settled.
PesticidesWed, 18 March
A March 18, 2026 PLOS ONE paper reports a full food and feed safety assessment of Vip3Cb1, a Vip3C insecticidal protein for crop protection, with no detected hazard signal in bioinformatics, digestion, heat-lability and acute oral toxicity endpoints.
PesticidesMon, 16 March
A field study found that residues from a fluopyram-trifloxystrobin premix in cucumber fell below the 0.01 mg/kg quantification limit within 10 to 15 days after the final spray, while calculated dietary risk remained negligible under good agricultural practice.
