© Shutterstock / pp1Chlordecone is considered an endocrine disruptor, a neurotoxin, a toxic product for reproduction and development, as well ...
Read morePrenatal and postnatal exposure to chlordecone is associated with behavioral disorders and a decline in intellectual abilities in West Indian ...
Read more© ShutterstockChlordecone is a pesticide that was once used against banana weevils. Banned in France in 1990, its use was ...
Read moreChlordecone has not been used in Guadeloupe and Martinique since 1993 but this pesticide, recognized as an endocrine disruptor and ...
Read moreProstate prostate cancer has just been recognized as an occupational disease in the event of exposure to chlordecone. What are ...
Read moreThe recognition of this cancer as an occupational disease is one of the consequences of the affair of chlordecone, a ...
Read moreAccording to a France2 report broadcast on February 27, after the banning of the highly toxic pesticide chlordecone in the ...
Read more© ShutterstockChlordecone is a pesticide that was once used against banana weevils. Banned in France in 1990, its use was ...
Read moreAfter six months of hearings, the parliamentary commission of inquiry responsible for shedding light on the health and environmental consequences ...
Read moreUsed in West Indian banana plantations until 1993, chlordecone still poisons the soils of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Four ministers, including ...
Read moreChlordecone, a pesticide widely used in the cultivation of bananas in the West Indies, could multiply up to three times ...
Read moreChlordecone, a pesticide that has poisoned West Indians for decades, has a detrimental impact on the spermatozoa of baby mice ...
Read more© GettyImageUntil 1993, chlordecone, an insecticide that eradicates the banana weevil, was used in banana plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique. ...
Read moreAfter the appeal of 1,200 doctors alerting to the dangers of pesticides, the Minister of Ecology Philippe Martin announced measures ...
Read moreThe pesticide chlordecone causes premature births and cancer. According to specialists, the pollution of the Antilles should last several more ...
Read moreAccording to a study by Inserm, maternal exposure to the pesticide chlordecone is associated with an increased risk of prematurity. ...
Read moreChlordecone is an organochlorine insecticide that was widely used in the West Indies from 1973 until 1993 to control the ...
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