Overview

• Dozens of FNSEA producers in Mundolsheim near Strasbourg removed or segregated items they say involve acetamiprid, including hazelnut spreads, chocolates and biscuits made with imported nuts.
• France’s Constitutional Council on August 7 struck down the Duplomb law’s bid to reauthorize acetamiprid, and the law was promulgated without that measure.
• The agriculture ministry says it will press for EU‑level harmonization of pesticide rules and has urged consumers to favor French products, while declining to say if a national safeguard will be invoked.
• Legal experts note a unilateral import curb would be difficult because acetamiprid remains EU‑approved and subject to maximum residue limits across many crops and processed foods.
• Previous French safeguard bans targeted dimethoate in 2016 and, more recently, phosmet and thiacloprid, but those substances had already lost EU authorization, unlike acetamiprid.