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Pesticides inYour Food

Pesticide Resldues

43% OF AŁL

VEGETABLES AND FRUIT CONTAIN DETECTABLE LEVELS OF PESTICIDES

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31,000 tonnes of pesticides

are sprayed on UK land every year

Pesticide R«slda«> Exposure to pesticide drift,

even at minutę do.se ievels, has been łinked by medieal researchers to birth defects, cancer and sterility. Research in US has shown that in a zonę of up to 154 melrcs aron ml application sites, airborne concentrations of pesticides MITC, chlorpyrifos and diazinon exceeded ołlicial Reference Kxposure lxⁱvels for adults and/or children.

Pesticide Ra*ldus$

from morę than 7 Chemicals

19 hormone disrupting pestcides

(Endocrine System Disrupters) have been identified by the European Union. Evidence of endocrine disrupting includes genital abnormalities, decreasing sperm counts and semen quality.

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commonly used on potatoes, without waming signs, is one of" the most acutely toxic pesticides ever manufactured: less than a gramme is enough to kill a dog.

Long-term effects of regular exposure to pesticides often cause chronię lllnesses, including cancer, reproductive and neurologicai effects.

The World Health Organisation beiieves that pesticides cause 772,000 new cases of disease each year.

Symptoms of Chronić Toxicity

Safety Testing of Pesticides assume Healthy Adults

It does not take into account vulnerable groups wiiose hormonal Systems are rapidly changing: Foetuses Ba Bi es

Adolescents Old and Infirm

"Children's exposure to pesticides

from all

pathways (food, water, air, other) are likely to be higher, because they eat morę food, drink morę water, and breathe morę air per pound of body weight."

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Central Nervous & Autonomio Systems mcoordination; fits; unsleadiness; numbness; linglmg; acute depressiory symptoms that mimie recognised neurologicai diseases; neurobehavioural deficits in children; Parkinson's disease

Haematological & Immune System anaeniias; clotting problems; white ceil depression; leukemia’ non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma Hearf&

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System ches; pains: arculatory failure; heart musclature

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sterility;foetus

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Urinary System kidney damage

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pesticides have been identified as potential human

Imazaiil - one pesticide iisted as likely cancer causirtg by US EPA

Medieal opinions

l The Ontario College of Family Physicians | I strongly recotnmentls that peoplc rcciucc I ftheir c*xposure to pesticides \vherev«r pos-| sibie after fimling consistcnt links to seri-ous illnesses such as cancer. reproductive problems and neurologicai diseases.

The Hritish Medieal Associalion says, *We do not know whether many pesticides are harmfut os- not In day-to-clay use.^!

cor!ex; hyperthyroidisin; hyperglycaemia; supression of endocrine functic breast cancer; lesticijlar

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One teaspoon lossjwwna ₀jagricultural pesticide

poured down the drain, could contaminate the drinking water of 200,000 peoplc for a day

Agricultural

WORKF.RS AT RISK

An estimaled 25 million agricultural work-ers may suffer at least ope mcident of pesticide poisoning eactyyear 99% of all poisonmg cases occut in developing countries where regulaipry health and education systems are weakest. łn Brazil alone, the Ministry of Health suggest there are 300,0Q0 poisonings a year and 5,000 deaths.

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Pesticide Rsslduss Increase from 38% in 2001

Cocktail Effect

| Studies have shown combinations of ii ii low-level insecticides, herbicides and ii nitrates can affect our bod i es in ways ii Chemicals in isolation do not. Studies \ have shown that 3 pesticides con-snmed together equal up to 100 times | I the effect of any one on its own.

Pesticide Resldues 14,500 tonnes of Sulphuric Acid are used on UK potatoes every

TOXIC WATER

Rain water in parts of Europę contains such high levels of dissolved pesticides it would be illegal to supply it as drinking water. Lindane bas been found in rainwater in Spain.

Pesticide Resldues

BAN N E D

37 pesticides have been banned in the UK and 50% of the 1000 pesticides registered across the EU have been phased out over the last 10 years.

1986 DDT

Toxic persistent organochlorine, probabie carcinogen.    ^ ^* f-

1988 CYHEXATIN ^

Evidence of birth defects.

1991 ALDRIN

Organochlorine, classified as a probabie carcinogen.

2002 LINDANE S*’’

Toxic persistent organochlorine probabie carcinogen. Suspected to cause breast cancer.

2 examples of pesticides with adverse effects at

much lower tevels than established safety ievels

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Are Safety Levels Safe?

FROGS CU&MGE SEK WITH ATRAZINE

A herbicide used widely to kill weeds in maize, is turning frogs into

hermaphrodites.

Studies on frogs ind i ca te that concentrations of ati azine as Iow as 0.1 parts per billion (one tenth of a teaspoon in an Olympic sized swimming pool) causes males to develop female sexual characteristics.

This concentration is alłowed in drinking water _ in the UK.

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Seals and cod in the | Arctic Ci role have f | pesticide residueś as these Chemicals ; i transported on wind, rain and | currents from morę Southern latitudes.

Pesticide Resldues

Farmed Salmon have 16 x morę PCBs (persistent cancer-causmg toxins) than wild salmon

JtiNG GROL-I’ -1’CBS IN FARMED SALMON"

ROUNDUP...vcr>- Iow doses of glyphosate were toxic to etther huni.in crnbryonk ceils, foctal celis or placcotal ceiU.

PROKKSSOH G(I.I.KS-KRtr Sr HALIN!

Violation of Your Fundamental Human Rights

At present there is no legał requirement for pesticide users to:

1. Notify the public in advance or spraying. 2. Disclose to those affected which Chemical has been used. 3. Leave no-spray safety zones.

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