Businesses are being given opportunity to talk to pesticides experts about food security at an event in York next month.

Members of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP) are offering to meet the public to discuss their work. This will take place at an open meeting on November 9, 2009 on the subject of food security.

The keynote speaker at the event will be the government’s chief scientist, Professor John Beddington.

This year’s event, the tenth Annual Open Meeting, will have break-out sessions allowing smaller working groups of attendees to discuss issues of particular interest.

The afternoon workshop sessions will include integrated pest management and its contribution to sustainable agriculture; the role of pesticides in delivering food security; exporting risks and alternative food sources and the role of pesticides.

The meeting will be held at the Monk Bar Hotel, York from 11am to 4.30pm.

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