Greenpeace report “The negative impact of pesticides on health.
growing problem of “summarizes the results of worldwide research
, from which it is clear that exposure to certain pesticides
may be associated with an increased risk of
of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, such as .
Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, endocrine disorders, and serious
malformations and diseases of children. Prolonged contact with
pesticides can also increase the risk of certain chronic diseases
, eg. Asthma or allergies. This applies to both
people directly working with pesticides (farmers, workers
greenhouses), as well as those who consume
products containing residues of these toxic substances.
– Long-term exposure to toxic substances, among other things
on some pesticides, is one of the important factors
increase the risk of cancer. Therefore
You must do everything to people – and especially children –
They have with them as little contact. Dangerous is
both the direct contact while working in the fields or in
orchards and food intake of the residual content of
pesticides used in the growing season – said prof. Dr.
hab. med. Jacek Jassem, Head of Department of Oncology and
Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdansk and a member of
The Board of the Polish Oncological Society. Therefore
Greenpeace calls for reducing the use of synthetic
pesticides and agricultural chemicals use stop progressing in
Poland.
– Those who produce our food, are also
most exposed to the harmful effects of pesticides
used in the fields, orchards and greenhouses. Farmers and their
families suffering the consequences of a flawed system of industrial production
food. But its effects also bear all of us –
consumers. Our report clearly shows that pesticides
you can never be considered completely safe and for
human security should be reduced to a minimum or
completely eliminate them from the process of food production –
said Catherine Jagiello, coordinator of the campaign
“Organic Farming” Greenpeace Poland.
Pregnant women and children – risk groups
Contact with pesticides during pregnancy can pose serious
risk to the developing fetus. Exposure to
certain pesticides in utero can contribute
among others, to serious defects, eg. the delays in the development of
the child’s cognitive or increased risk of
Children leukemia. This applies particularly to women, who
while pregnant worked with spraying on the field or in
greenhouses, had prolonged contact with pesticides during
garden work or live near areas where
carried out intensive cultivation.
Pesticides are also particularly dangerous to health
newborns and young children, who in conjunction with low weight
the body and a lower exercise capacity metabolism are not able to get
of toxic substances from the body as quickly as
adults. A common way of exposure of children to pesticides are milk
a mother who was exposed to its effects, or food
produced in an industrial way.
Agriculture pesticide-free human security and
Environment
In connection with the huge dynamic growth in the use
synthetic pesticides in Europe, especially in
Poland *, Greenpeace calls for the inclusion in the National Plan
measures to reduce the risks associated with
the use of plant protection solutions which
reduce the risks to health from exposure to
the effects of these toxic substances. To achieve this,
it is necessary to limit as soon as possible, followed
term elimination of synthetic pesticides from the process
food production. The first thing to prohibit
substances with carcinogenic, mutagenic,
toxic to the reproductive system and affect the system
hormonal, neurotoxic pesticides as well.
* In the years 2000-2013 the consumption of pesticides in Poland increased by approx.
150%.
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