Question 13550 — overseas

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Ms. Nadia Ramassamy questions the Minister of Solidarity and Health on the consequences of recognizing the chlordecone scandal. While chlordecone has been a banned pesticide in the United States since the late 1970s, it was not until 1990 that it was banned and in 1993 in the French West Indies. The consequences of its spreading are dramatic: 90% of Guadeloupeans and Martinicans would be contaminated. These rates could explain the world record rate of prostate cancer in these two territories. But it is not only a health tragedy, it is also an ecological disaster. The land has been contaminated for several hundred years and chlordecone is found in fresh water, molluscs and even marine fish. During his trip to Martinique on September 28, 2018, the President of the Republic declared that “the State must take its share of responsibility in the chlordecone environmental scandal”. The recognition of this scandal is a first step forward. However, no concrete measures have been announced, and no measures in the social security financing bill for 2019 were in this direction. Thus, she asks him for the concrete measures that the Government plans to take to help the victims of the chlordecone.

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