Illegal crop sprays are available here

A LARGE quantity of illegal crop sprays is being offered to Irish tillage farmers, according to the representative body for manufacturers and sole distributors of animal health and plant health products.

Products that are not licenced here and that have no equivalent on the market here are being offered for sale, according to the Animal and Plant Health Association (APHA).

Declan O’Brien of APHA warned that any lack of compliance totally undermines the food chain.