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SA's water resources at risk due to dangerous levels of pollution

SA's water resources at risk due to dangerous levels of pollution
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EU-banned pesticides are harming farmworkers in SA - The Mail & Guardian


EU-banned pesticides are harming farmworkers in SA
9 May 2021
Poison pen: A report by German NGOs has criticised duplicity in the global trade in pesticides, which may be developed in the EU but sold elsewhere. (Paul Botes/M&G)
The active ingredients in hazardous pesticides, developed and brought to market by German agrochemical firms Bayer and BASF, are damaging the health of farmworkers and farmers in South Africa.
Six of eight active ingredients that have been deemed carcinogenic (cancer-causing), reprotoxic (interfering with human reproduction) and mutagenic (capable of inducing heritable genetic defects or increasing their incidence), can be found on the South African agrochemicals market four from Bayer and two from BASF according to a new report by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the Inkota Netzwerk and Pan Germany.  ....

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