UK government criticised for ongoing delay in farm poisoning case
by Tom Levitt from on (#1E4AR)
Campaigners are seeking an explanation from officials on their level of knowledge about the dangers of a chemical mandated for sheep dipping
Government officials have been criticised for an ongoing delay in explaining what they knew about the serious health risks to farmers of using a mandatory chemical treatment.
As the Guardian revealed last year, at least 500 farmers across the UK were left with debilitating health problems after using organophosphate-based (OP) chemicals to protect their sheep against parasites, under the government's compulsory dipping programme which ran up until 1992.