Question 19247 — dangerous products

Summary

Ms. Bénédicte Taurine questions Mr. the Prime Minister about a series of complaints filed by the Ariège collective “Campagne Glyphosate” with the Foix high court on October 2 and December 12, 2018. On November 27, 2017, following the promulgation by the European Union of the renewal of the marketing of glyphosate, Emmanuel Macron spoke publicly on this subject: “I asked the Government to take the necessary provisions so that the use of glyphosate is prohibited in France as soon as alternatives have been found, and at the latest in three years.” That is, November 27, 2020. This desire of the Government has not yet materialized. The “law for balanced commercial relations in the agricultural and food sector and healthy, sustainable and accessible food for all” does not include any commitment to matter. This law contains almost no provisions restricting the use of pesticides. The “Action plan on plant protection products and an agriculture less dependent on pesticides” presented on April 25, 2018 does not provide for any measure to phase out glyphosate before 2020. This plan does not draw the overall negative results from the previous Ecophyto I and II plan, since the number of unit doses (Nodu) has increased by 12.4% between 2009 and 2017. This plan still plans to “conduct a collective expertise on the health risks of glyphosate” by 2020, the target year for glyphosate to be phased out. Glyphosate poses a proven risk to health and the environment. Its dangerousness has also already been proven. However, on August 18, 2018, Sébastien Lecornu, then Secretary of State for Ecological Transition, declared that “on glyphosate, the The answer will come from scientists. While it has been recognized as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization, through the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) since 2015, glyphosate is still not banned in the European Union, and even less so in France. However, this is a major public health issue, as well as an environmental one. In 2016, 800,000 tonnes of Roundup, trade name glyphosate, and its adjuvants (petroleum derivatives, arsenic) have been spread across the planet. In September 2017, Italian (La Stampa) and British (The Guardian) journalists revealed that a crucial part of the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) report concluding in 2015 that there was no reason to consider glyphosate to be carcinogenic, was in fact a copy and paste of a document written by Monsanto itself in 2012 on behalf of an industrial consortium called the “Glyphosate Task Force”. More recently, the existence of groups of “ghost farmers” created to support glyphosate was revealed in the press. The reason for filing a complaint was endangering the lives of others, aggravated deception and damage to the environment. In support, the collective had urine analyzes contaminated with glyphosate. This collective from Ariège intends to continue their foresight across the entire French territory, their results are already alarming. She asks him if, given the rate of glyphosate contamination in the Ariège region, he is going to carry out a national survey in order to find out the rate of contamination suffered by citizens.

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