November 7, 2018.
According to a study conducted by European parliamentarians unveiled by the daily the Parisian, the hair of European nationals would show traces of pesticides, some of which are however banned in Europe.
60% of hair samples analyzed show traces of pesticides
A group of environmentalists from the European Parliament called for a study of hair samples from European nationals, ” to measure their level of impregnation with pesticides », Can we read in the columns of the Parisian of November 6, which exclusively reveals the results of this survey.
It emerges from this study, relating to “ 148 hair samples from French, Belgian, Italian, Danish, British and German citizens That 60% of them contained pesticide residues. In particular, traces of fipronil have been found, while the use of this powerful pest control, about which much was said at the time of the contaminated egg crisis last year, is however prohibited among European farmers.
The hair of the French would be more contaminated by pesticides
The results of the analyzes of the hair samples tell us that the presence of pesticides is slightly more important among the French, since 64% of them present traces of toxic products, in particular permethrin in 36% of cases, banned in 8 European countries but still authorized in France.
Pesticides are even found in 73% of children and adolescents, aged 10 to 20, who “ are particularly exposed to chlorpyriphos, one of the most common pesticides found in European foods »Explain our colleagues from Parisian.
Aurélie Giraud
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