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Brazilian Senate holds public hearing on impact of agrochemicals on health
Dec. 24, 2019
By Leonardo Gottems, Reporter for AgroPages
On December 4, 2019, the Brazilian Senate Environment Committee approved an application for a public hearing in conjunction with the Committee on Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, aimed at discussing the impacts of agrochemical use on the health of the population.
The public hearing is an instrument of the Brazilian Parliament that will help explain the bill (PL) 5.090 / 2019, which deals with the regulation of the use of pesticides, their components and the like, in the South American countries. This bill aims to combine two objectives: to extend the protection of human health and the preservation of the environment, and to maintain the efficiency of food production.
The author of the bill is Senator Styvenson Valetim from the Somos party, who presented the request for a hearing with Senator Luis Carlos Heinze from the Progressive Party, who is the rapporteur of the matter in the Committee on Agriculture and Agrarian Reform. The intention of the public hearing is to gather information about the amount of pesticides that end up being "ingested by people, even through water consumption".
Among other things, the bill establishes the “maximum pesticide residue content in agricultural products intended for human consumption and determines the periodic review of pesticide records in federal agencies. It provides for the application of pesticides through aircraft and encourages the dissemination of guidelines on the exceptional use of pesticides and the need for their use in an integrated manner with cultural practices and physical or biological pest control methods”.
According to Senator Styvenson, “The concern is precisely to ascertain how harmful it will be because the incidence of cancer is very high. The incidence of the anomaly in newborn babies today is discrepant. So we need to analyze, study and check if there is any relationship. Sure, our country is still a country that exports a lot of agricultural productions, but that does not mean we have to kill the population in the name of the economy.”
“There are often no studies on the side effects such as cancers and various forms of poisoning resulting from the use of these pesticides. People do not know what they are putting in their mouth and what they are ingesting” concluded the senator.
Source: AgroNews
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