APVMA approvals rate crashes further as Armidale move looms

By Doug Dingwall
Updated August 22 2017 - 2:49pm, first published 11:38am
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was a driving force behind the pesticides authority's forced move to Armidale. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was a driving force behind the pesticides authority's forced move to Armidale. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

A new chief executive and efforts to recruit staff at the embattled national pesticides authority ahead of its move to Armidale has failed to improve its on-time product approval rate, leaving close to half its work unfinished by agency deadlines.

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