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Nov 15, 1995 | From the print edition
The Switzerland-based
coalitim
group, the
Blumen-Kampag
(Flower Campaign)
which campaigns against
pesticide usad
worldwide has
notched xipU-Actory.
it-has forced
Ciba-Geigy, the SVA4
company and AgrEvo,
the Gertmin
company to withdraw
their mal
controversial
pesticides from the
Colombian flower
industry. Cibj
Geigy will no longer
sell phos-
pharaidon,
dichlorvos and di
tophos and AgrEvo
will withdr "
thiodon, an
endosulfan from
Colombia. These
decisions have
been taken in viewof
the inadequate
health and safety
standards for
workers in the
flower plantations.
