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12 July 2018Biotech

Europol makes largest-ever seizure of fake pesticides

Europol has seized 360 tonnes of counterfeit or illegal pesticides across Europe over the course of 20 days, in what the agency has deemed its largest-ever haul of fake pesticides.

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