Brexit is also impacting the tools pest controllers have readily available to tackle vermin as less companies opt to pay to put their products through UK-specific regulation processes.

Company denies ‘sweet deal’ that will import sugar cane from countries with lower employment and environmental standards.

The decisions made in these trade talks will define the health of the UK’s population as well as the country’s environment and economy for years to come.

Conservative MPs have urged the government to use its Brexit freedoms to ditch the EU’s cautious approach to making sure pesticides are safe for human consumption.

Analysis from EU’s scientific risk assessors finds neonicotinoids pose a serious danger to all bees, making total field ban highly likely

EU restricts use of eight chemicals, with 16 more in pipeline; UK has two under consideration.

Analysis finds changes such as removal of blanket ban on hormone-disrupting chemicals. / The UK has been accused of “silently eroding” key environmental and human health protections in the Brexit-inspired rush to convert thousands of pages of European Union pesticide policy into British law.

American agricultural lobby groups had criticised some of the import bans.

Campaigners say revoking of post-Brexit protections amounts to legislative vandalism. / Hundreds of Britain’s environmental laws covering water quality, sewage pollution, clean air, habitat protections and the use of pesticides are lined up for removal from UK law under a government bill.

Select committee says ministers want to rush through deal allowing food imports that fall below UK environmental standards.

BORDER checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned.

The UK’s trade agreement with Australia led to British farmers and associations voicing concerns about unfair competition and a lowering of food standards.

They want to tear up our green regulations so they can plunder and pollute the environment for profit.

The government’s “Brexit freedoms bill” could see all legal protections from pesticides abolished, wildlife campaigners have warned, putting insects, wildlife and human health in danger.

A bill to remove EU-derived laws that include 570 environmental regulations will cause serious ecological harm, charities and MPs have warned.

Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?

When the government announced this year it would indefinitely delay plans to force UK companies to adopt a new post-Brexit quality mark, the UKCA, Simon Blackham, of the insulation maker Recticel, was delighted. “Yes! An outbreak of common sense,” he recalls thinking. / His joy was short-lived, however.