Today, the AEEP, its members, supporters and friends, have adopted a joint statement on the proposed limit of cadmium in the New Fertilizer Regulation. The AEEP and its members have long believed that the limits of cadmium proposed by the European Commission are unrealistically low and will lead to great damage in the phosphate fertilizer industry of the EU. Therefore, AEEP member EU phosphate fertilizer producers, as well as phosphate rock importers and NPK blenders, have all joined forced to sign one statement asking for a reasonable and scientifically justified limit of 80 mg.