This is then taken up by others who just believe what it said. Some vested interests are more important than others and some firms may well have innocently repeated what they believed to be true.
Nevertheless we identified a number of on-line sites where there were people selling ragwort related products and a leaflet produced by the British Horse Society jointly with a local council, and complained to the Advertising Standards Authority. Each of the pages below documents a case where material had to be removed from the internet.
The British Horse Society and Warwickshire Council's ragwort leaflet
Ragfork – A site selling a tool used to remove ragwort
There were also several companies selling these products which were repeating the company line. The total number of organisations comes to over a dozen.