Test Purchasing requires measures to be taken against the pesticides: All the children are exposed to

All british children may have been exposed to insecticides. That, says the consumers ‘ association to Test the Purchase on the basis of a study of 84 children, from all parts of the country. Test and Purchase of calls in Belgium and Europe, and on the measures to be taken in the use of pesticides and to reduce, and eventually completely stop.

the Consumer organization Test-Purchase has, this past spring, in the urine of 84 children between the ages of 2 and 15 years of age from all parts of the country have to be analyzed. With all of the children were the effects of recent exposure of there are two families of insecticides have been found.

It’s going to be the use of insecticides on the basis of the pyretroïden, and that, on the basis of organic phosphorus. which are widely used in the agricultural and horticultural sectors, as well as at home, for example, in insect repellents. The stuff is too easy to get into the bloodstream, through the breath, to swallow, or by getting in touch with the skin.

Pesticides are increasingly being linked to serious health problems such as cancer, neurological disorders, or impairment of the reproductive functions. Thus, there is a correlation with the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and suspicion of researchers, other insecticides have an impact on the hormonal system, which can lead to infertility in men, early puberty in girls and various cancers.

vulnerable.

as Children, foetuses and the elderly, are particularly vulnerable. The dose of the insecticide into the bloodstream, it takes less and less time for the exposure period, but, according to the scientists, it is not a single dose of a fully risk-free. The children have yet to fully grow up, to take a larger amount of food and water relative to their weight, and are also more likely to be in the mouth, which is the risk of adverse effects is only going to increase.

as of Or for the concentration in the urine being tested, children will also have adverse effects on their health, it is difficult to predict the future. There is no legal requirement that maximum concentrations of pesticide in the urine, record it, and we would like to remind the children each day with a host of other chemical substances in contact with it. However, according to the Test code and will not be a matter of urgency, both on a Belgian and European level, action needs to be taken to reduce the exposure to pesticides as much as possible. For both professional and domestic use must be reduced, and in the long term, even the disappearance of, the consumer.

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