PESTICIDES, DISEASE AND DEATH IN GLOBAL SOUTH

*European pesticide giants are making huge profits at the cost of human
rights. About 200,000 people die every year due to poisoning from
pesticides. The major part of these deaths occur in the Global South. This
has to stop now!*

Dr. Thilo Bode Director of foodwatch International

https://www.foodwatch.org/en/news/2020/petition-started-stop-the-poison-boomerang/

Full report (17 pages)
https://www.foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-INT/transparency_and_food_safety/documents/Foodwatch_report-April_2020-Stop_the_poison_boomerang.pdf

*Related PAEPARD blogpost:*
The Food Challenge: toxic pesticides in Kenya
<https://paepard.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-food-challenge-toxic-pesticides-in.html>
Concerns have been raised
<https://routetofood.org/withdraw-harmful-agrochemicals-from-the-market/> about
the safety of food in Kenya. In particular, the increased prevalence of
harmful chemical pesticides.

Dele Fapohunda

21 April, 2020

Source  ==PAEPARD