World Parkinson’s Day: “Farmer, I contracted the disease because of cleaning products”
On the occasion of World Parkinson's Awareness Day, Breton farmer Sylvie Chaplain, 59, tells us about her fight against the ...
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Pesticides: a proven link with leukemia
Heavy exposure to pesticides, primarily insecticides, increases the risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the bone marrow ...
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Pesticides: the effectiveness of farmers’ protections called into question
Researchers from different disciplines have come together to assess the effectiveness of protective equipment for farmers against pesticides. Their findings ...
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Herbicide: Monsanto definitively condemned against a French farmer
© Getty ImagesSince 2004, when he inhaled vapors of monochlorobenzene, a solvent listed as highly toxic and entering 50% in ...
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Pesticides: the Parkinson’s disease of an arborist recognized as a professional
An arborist who died in 2018 obtained post-mortem recognition of the occupational origin of his Parkinson's disease on Monday. Justice ...
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Pesticides: a farmer loses his fight against the State
Dominique Marchal is suffering from a blood disease due, according to him, to his exposure to pesticides. His claim for ...
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Parkinson’s disease: farmers and residents more exposed because of pesticides
According to Public Health France, the number of people with Parkinson's disease will have increased by 56% in 2030. Farmers ...
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Avian influenza: farmers enter into resistance
The Lot-et-Garonne Chamber of Agriculture and the Rural Coordination union oppose the containment and preventive slaughter of healthy ducks. The ...
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Avian influenza: a first case detected in the Tarn
The day after the installation of the crawl space, a first case of avian flu was detected in the Tarn.Avian ...
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Doctors of the World warns about the state of health of rural people
Rural areas are far from being spared from precariousness. Discomfort from this symptom, 14% of farmers say they have given ...
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Burn-out: the most sensitive professions
While burnout seems to affect more and more French people, a report explains that certain professions are much more exposed ...
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Pesticides: the family of a winegrower files a complaint against X
For 42 years, James-Bernard Murat was exposed to sodium arsenite. The family of the winegrower, who died of cancer in ...
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Cognitive deficits decline among farmers
Cases of cognitive impairment among retired farmers are declining, but diagnosed dementias are on the rise. This is the result ...
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Pesticides: reduce their use by 50% in ten years
A 25% drop in the use of pesticides should be achieved by 2020, according to the Minister of Agriculture, who ...
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Pesticides: two farmers’ brain tumors recognized as an occupational disease
A first step towards official recognition of the link between exposure to pesticides and the appearance of brain tumors?On Tuesday ...
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Pesticide use started to rise again in 2013
The use of phytosanitary products increased by 9.2% in 2013 according to a report submitted to the Prime Minister today.The ...
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Farmers: types of cancer vary by crop
According to new results from the Agrican survey, farmers risk different types of cancer depending on their sector of activity, ...
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Pesticides: measures to protect schools and hospitals
Voted yesterday, the bill on the future of agriculture further regulates the spreading of pesticides near sensitive places. It will ...
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Agricultural show: food safety in the spotlight
The National Food Safety Agency invites visitors to the agricultural show to discover its work and in particular how it ...
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Farmers: suicide is the third leading cause of death
The Institute for Public Health Surveillance publishes the results of the first analysis of mortality by suicide among active farmers. ...
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Organic baskets: to “see the face of the farmer”
April 20, 2005 - More and more Quebecers are turning to community-supported agriculture (CSA)1. Thanks to her, it is possible ...
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