Die Schwarze Liste der Pestizide - Greenpeace

Greenpeace e.V. – Die Schwarze Liste der Pestizide
Substances especially hazardous when exposed to
Especially hazardous substances are extremely critical for people and the environment if they are
at the same time present in food or the open environment, as in waters. 13 substances on the
black list were identified as at the same time being frequently detected in food:
carbendazim, maneb, iprodione, imazalil, metiram, chloropyrifos, procymidone, zineb, mancozeb,
tolylfluanid, fludioxonil, propineb, imidacloprid.
Another 18 substances were found to be dangerous to water as well as having particularly hazardous
properties:
lindane, diuron, chloropyrifos, dichlorprop, pentachlorophenol, simazine, terbutyl-azin, atrazin,
endosulfan, chlorfenvinphos, propazine, trifluralin, alachlor, hexazinone, HCH isomers, methabenzthiazuron,
lenacil, fenpropimorph.
In the case of one substance, chloropyrifos, both exposure indicators were over the limits. This is
approved for use in the EU by Appendix I of Directive 91/414.
Conclusion
Almost 170 of the active substances in pesticides at present allowed in the EU have especially
hazardous properties in the evaluations made in the study, and so are potentially dangerous to
health and the environment. Over 80 of them only received (further) approval in the last few years,
after being entered in Appendix I of Directive 91/414.
Authorisation and use of substances on the blacklist ought to be stopped as soon as possible
on account of the dangers these pose to people and the environment; this applies most urgently
to the 31 substances which at the same time occur frequently in food or in the environment.
The criteria for evaluating substances listed in this study, and the recommendations on substances
made, should be taken into consideration in the current revision of EU Directive 91/414/EC on the
authorisation of substances in pesticides. Producers, users, and wholesalers and retailers and others
involved in the food-produce chain should all put these findings and recommendations into
practice.
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