The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing an application to allow caffeine to be used as an insecticide and molluscicide.
French-based company Progarein is seeking approval to use caffeine as an insecticide for cabbage, potatoes and buxus and as a molluscicide for slug control in all edible and non-edible crops.
The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) is assisting the European Commission in reviewing the application, which was submitted last year.
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