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The Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) to join The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Information Update: 12/2008
Issued: 27 March 2008
Defra’s consultation on the future of the Pesticides Safety Directorate is now complete. PSD will become an agency of the Health and Safety Executive from 1 April 2008 . Defra Ministers remain responsible for pesticides policy. Here are links to the Minister's statement to Parliament, and a summary of responses to the consultation (which is no longer available on the Defra website). If you have any questions on the implications of this change, please contact us.