New French study finds 32 toxic pesticides in the air....


A new study into pesticides found in the air in France has identified 75 different substances, including 32 deemed to be “a priority [to investigate]” due to their potential toxicity and links to cancer and endocrine conditions.

The study, named the Campagne Nationale Exploratoire des Pesticides (CNEP, the national exploration campaign into pesticides) was the first of its kind in France.
It was led by national food and environment safety agency l’Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail (Anses), environmental institute l’Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques (Ineris) and the air quality network Associations Agréées de Surveillance de la Qualité de l’Air (MASQUA), with air monitoring network Atmo France.
The results were published on Thursday July 2.
In total, the study found 75 substances in the air, including 32 judged to be “a priority” due to their danger and toxicity.
These included glyphosate, folpel (more often known as “vine fungicide”, and deemed carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation) and lindane. The latter is an insecticide that has been banned since 1998...


Cripes, if they are still finding lindane, it must be coming from abroad somewhere far away or it is still in soils and being volatilised in the heat of the day or something?
 
'Folpel' sounds like......

Can only assume it is a typo or something. I believe folpet is used in combination with another product in vineyards?

It's a bit scary to think that using pesticides on land year in year out could be building up levels in the soil that don't retreat to normal levels for decades? I know organo-chlorines were known for their environmental stability but lindane still being detected in air over 20 years since it was banned? Holy heck with bells on top.
 

farmerm

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Being at detectable levels can be a million miles from being at harmful levels... Testing has become too sensitive! It is concerning though. Wikipedia says 12-30% of Lindane volatilizes into the atmosphere and is persistent so it could easily be coming from use in North Korea or anywhere in the world. I would be interested to see more detail.. for instance was glyphosate and folpet detected only on occasional days which coincided with someone spraying within 50m of a monitoring station or did they find a background level all year round?
 

shakerator

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A new study into pesticides found in the air in France has identified 75 different substances, including 32 deemed to be “a priority [to investigate]” due to their potential toxicity and links to cancer and endocrine conditions.

The study, named the Campagne Nationale Exploratoire des Pesticides (CNEP, the national exploration campaign into pesticides) was the first of its kind in France.
It was led by national food and environment safety agency l’Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail (Anses), environmental institute l’Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques (Ineris) and the air quality network Associations Agréées de Surveillance de la Qualité de l’Air (MASQUA), with air monitoring network Atmo France.
The results were published on Thursday July 2.
In total, the study found 75 substances in the air, including 32 judged to be “a priority” due to their danger and toxicity.
These included glyphosate, folpel (more often known as “vine fungicide”, and deemed carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation) and lindane. The latter is an insecticide that has been banned since 1998...


Cripes, if they are still finding lindane, it must be coming from abroad somewhere far away or it is still in soils and being volatilised in the heat of the day or something?

lindane as a pharmaceutical treatment for lice was never banned?
 
lindane as a pharmaceutical treatment for lice was never banned?

I honestly don't know, I would be very surprised if any organochlorine products were still legally for sale within the EU. Last I heard Lindane had been strongly linked to the incidence of breast cancer which would make sense because most organochlorines isomers generally were highly lipophilic and so would naturally accumulate in breast tissues.
 

robs1

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Saw the report yesterday, I thought that many of the highest levels were in built up areas not countryside which seems odd.
 
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Just because they're in the air, doesn't indicate where they came from.

More likely to be from an industrial source than agriculture

"Pesticides" are made up from a number of elements and compounds, the same elements and compounds have numerous other uses.
 
Farmers generally do not use broardspectrum pesticides
but Plant farmers do use specific regulated herbicides fungicides and insecticides generally called plant protection products
livestock Farmers us specific vetenary medicines
 

Gong Farmer

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Being at detectable levels can be a million miles from being at harmful levels... Testing has become too sensitive! It is concerning though. Wikipedia says 12-30% of Lindane volatilizes into the atmosphere and is persistent so it could easily be coming from use in North Korea or anywhere in the world. I would be interested to see more detail.. for instance was glyphosate and folpet detected only on occasional days which coincided with someone spraying within 50m of a monitoring station or did they find a background level all year round?
They had a choice of 32 'priority' examples to quote and they had to include glyphosate :rolleyes:
 

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