New Delhi, April 30 -- The demand for a complete global ban on hazardous pesticides like chlorpyrifos has been reinvigorated once again. At an ongoing meeting in Geneva under the Stockholm Convention, scientists and representatives from Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International have recommended that this chemical pesticide be listed in Annex A without any exemptions.

Annex A is an official appendix of the Stockholm Convention, listing dangerous chemicals - such as pesticides and industrial substances -that must be completely banned or eliminated worldwide. Chemicals or pesticides included in Annex A without exemptions are prohibited from global production, use, import and export.

The Stockholm Convention is an international treaty ai...