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Pesticides inYour Food

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*±Ó /O OF ALL VEGETABLES AND FRUIT CONTAIN DETECTABLE LEVELS OF PESTICIDES

Pesticide Rotlduo*

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 ąuality.

Pesticide Residues

Aldicarb

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

Pesticide Residues 14,500 tonnes of Suiphuric 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 Ulegał to supply it as drinking water. Lindane has been found in rainwater in Spain.

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ROUNDUP...very Iow doses of glyphosate were toxk to either human embryonic cells, foetal colls or placental cells.

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31,000 tonnes of pesticides

are sprayed on UK land every year

Exposure to pesticide drift,

even sit minutę dose levels, has bccn linked by inedical researchers to birtb defects, cancer and sterility. Research in US has shown that in a zonę of Ip to 154 rnelres around applicution sitcs, airborne concentrations ot' pesticides M1TC, chlorpyrifos and diazinon exceeded otticial Referenci! Exposure .Levd| for adults and/or childrcn.

Long-term efffects of regular exposure to pesticides ofien cause chronię illnesses, inciuding cancer, reproductive and neurological efffects.

The World Health Organisation heiieyes 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 whose hormonal Systems are rapidly changing:

Foetuses

Babies

Adolescents Old and Infirm

"Chiidren s exposure to pestiddes

from all

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

S. KECLEY. A KATTEN, M.MOSL-S. SECONOHANO 1’ESnaDFS; ATR-EOltNE IlinCIDH DRIFr IN CAMPOKNIA, 2003

CtNlHAL NEKVOU8 & Autonomio Systems “—

mcoordinatlon; fits; unsteadlness; numbness; tinglmg; acute deproasion;

symptom* that mimie reoognised neurological diseaaes; neurobehavloun defidls in chiidren; , Parkinson¹* disease Jfi

+ Eye», Eaks, NOSE a TlIROAT conjunciMlis; rhinibs; sore-lhroal and oye dnmago

+ Respiratory yT    8YUTtM

' aslttma; bumlrtg _:    and irritation;

|    lung damage

PPestlcMe Resldues^ mazalil - one pesticide iisted as likeiy cancer causśng by US EPA

Haematołogical fi Immunu System ' anaemias; elotting problems; white cel daprassion; leukerr non-Hodgkin’s lym-phome

Heart &    *'■

Carowo ascula*

System

chesi pains:

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fakira; heart *

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Skin persislank derrnatitis (ospeoaRy of hands); nxcema

pesticides have been identified as potential human carcinogens

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Medical opinions The Ontario College of Family Physiciuns strongly rccommcnds that people reduec their expo.su rc to pesticides wherever pos-sible after fwding consistent links to seri-ous illnesses such as cancer, rcproductice prohlenis and neurological duseases.

1 he Hritish .Meilical Assodalion says, 'We do not know whether many pesticides are harmful or not in day-to-day use.’

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Reproouctive

System

atarilityifoetu*

malfoimolion,

slillbirih;

spontaneous

abortion

Muscolo- ^: Skeletal System muscular tendemess; Iow muscle strengih; musde cramps^

One teaspoon of agricultural pesticide poured down the dram, could contamimte the drinking icaier of 200,000 people for a dny

Agricultural

WORKERS AT RISK

An estimaled 25 million agricultural work-ers may suffer at least ope incident of pesticide poisoning each/year. 99% of all poisoning cases occut in developing countries where regulatory, heatth and education systems ate weakest In Brazil alone, the Mlnlstry of Health suggest there are 300,0D0 poisonings a year and 5,000 jdeaths.

Safety jlevels Safe?

Pesticide Residues Increase from 38% in 2001

Cocktail Effect

Studies have shown combinations of low-level insectirides, herbirides and nitrates can affect our bodies in ways Chemicals in isolation do not. Studies have shown that 3 pesticides con-sumed together equal up to 100 times the effect of any one on its own.

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.

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1986 DDT

Tonie persistent organoenlorine, probable carcinogen.

1988 CYHEXATIN ^ Evidence ot birtb defecls.

1991 ALDRIN 0*^,ł* Organochlorine, dassified as a probable cardnogen.

2002 LINDANE Toxic persistent organochlorine probable carcinogen. Suspected to cause breast cancer.

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FROGS CHANGE SEX WITH ATRAZiNE

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

hermaphrodites. ■

Studies on frogs indicate that concentrations of atrazine as Iow as 0.1 parts per billion (one tenth of a teaspoon in an Olympic sized swimming pool) enuses males to develop female sexual characteristics.

This concentration is allowed in drinking water _ in thp UK.__

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HAZARD

• y Seals and cod in the Arctie Cirde have pesticide residues as tliese Chemicals are transported on wind, rain and ocean currents from morę Southern latitudes.

Pesflcido R«sldu»s Farmed Salmon have 16 x morę PCBs (persistent cancer-causing toxins) than wild sąlmon

TCBS IN FARM Id) SAl.MON'

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VioIation of Your Fundamental Human Rights

At present there is no legał roquirement for pesticide u sers 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.

^;\n independent, non-profit organisation whicli promotes healthy food, agricultuie and an eiwironment not dependent on toxic Chemicals, a d min^pan- uk. org    w w w. pan- uk .org

DDT has been found in

of feta cheese sam pies

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