Die Schwarze Liste der Pestizide - Greenpeace

Greenpeace e.V. – Die Schwarze Liste der Pestizide
fluazinam, triadimenol, paclobutrazol, cyromazine, proquinazid, boscalid/nicobifen, ethalfluralin,
forchlorfenuron, butralin, isoxaben.
The approval holders or manufacturers of these twenty substances include the companies Bayer,
BASF, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Makhteshim-Agan and Syngenta.
There are on the blacklist 82 active substances which have been approved as pesticides on the
EU's positive list in Appendix 1 of Directive 91/414/EC (a total of almost 170 active substances are
at present listed there). 130 active substances have been explicitly excluded from approval in the
EU by the European Commission, with 13 of these being temporarily licensed (for "essential uses")
in certain countries; another 86 are currently still in re-evaluation processes. This means that a total
of 168 of the pesticidal substances on the blacklist here are still approved in the EU.
The "grey list" - pesticides without especially dangerous properties
Substances which could be evaluated through there being adequate data on them, while they are
at the same time known to present a low hazard in comparison to especially dangerous pesticides,
are placed on a "grey list". There are 243 such active substances, or 21 per cent of the chemicals
looked at. Because these substances in part have dangerous properties, however, they ought not
to be regarded as substitutes for the substances on the blacklist.
The "yellow list“ of substances about which hardly anything is known
564, or 50 per cent of the substances examined could not be evaluated in the study because of the
lack of data on them. These are on the "yellow list". Too little information on these substances is
available from the data banks evaluated here. It was thus impossible to estimate the danger from
them. But, given that these substances can have quite dangerous characteristics, they ought not to
be regarded as substitutes for the substances on the blacklist.
Exposure
The danger to people and the environment from a pesticidal agent may be influenced not only by
its properties but also by exposure to it. The exposure of people and the environment to pesticidal
agents could not be properly evaluated on account of the lack of data needed for the purpose.
Contamination of food (in the findings made by official food monitoring) and contamination of or
danger to water (in findings in surface water and potentials for endangering water) were therefore
referred to as indicators. This contamination is described in the report but is not part of the evaluation
for entering substances on the “black” or “grey” lists.
To evaluate exposure, all the active substances investigated were grouped in a four-stage system.
17 of the substances are often (>5%) detected in food and 27 of them are found in waters or have
a high potential for endangering them. But for very many substances there are no data on contamination
(in food, 60% of the substances; in water, 75%).
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