Deu no Le Monde em 16 de fevereiro de 2022
Poisoned farmers: exposing the myth of pesticide protection
Par Stéphane Horel etStaffan Dahllöf (acesse o link para reportagem completa em inglês)
Enquête:
A group of scientists has alerted the authorities to the ineffectiveness of protective equipment for agricultural workers against pesticides. For fifteen years. In vain. This is their story.
Key takeaways
Farm workers are not protected from pesticides.
Their exposure has been linked to serious and deadly illnesses, including Parkinson's disease and blood cancers.
Recommended equipment, expensive, untested and rarely worn as it is, does not provide effective protection.
Without this presumed protection, dangerous pesticides would be banned.
French whistleblowing scientists have raised the alarm for more than a decade. They remain unheard.
Jean-Baptiste Lefoulon is standing in boxer shorts in the middle of his farmyard. Four hands, swathed in blue, are busy clothing him: a long-sleeved T-shirt, white long johns, a zipped work suit bearing an embroidered logo for a brand of agricultural machinery, immaculate gloves that won’t stay that way, and a cap. With precise gestures and concentrated gaze, two scientists stick on those clothes 10x10 cm patches that they take out of the trunk of the car, which has been converted into a Batmobile for epidemiology.
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