Media Release
Crop Protection
APVMA board costly and unnecessary
Labor and the Greens have raised deep concerns over the government’s plan to introduce a governance board for the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority. Their comments – based on unfair costs to farmers and duplication of management layers – are detailed in their dissenting reports to a Senate inquiry tabled yesterday evening. CropLife Australia Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Cossey, welcomed their views, “The plant science industry has been telling the government that adding this…