Status report on sugar cane agrochemicals ... - Sucre Ethique
Status report on sugar cane agrochemicals ... - Sucre Ethique
Status report on sugar cane agrochemicals ... - Sucre Ethique
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Acetochlor<br />
• Herbicide<br />
• Carcinogen<br />
• Suspected endocrine disruptor<br />
• Not registered in the EU<br />
Terbufos<br />
• Insecticide, nematocide<br />
• Extremely high acute toxicity<br />
• Cholinesterase inhibitor<br />
• Not registered in the EU<br />
MCPA<br />
• Herbicide<br />
• Possible carcinogen<br />
• Registered for use in the EU<br />
Imidachloprid<br />
• Insecticide<br />
• Potential groundwater c<strong>on</strong>taminant<br />
• Has attracted c<strong>on</strong>troversy due to possible detrimental e� ects up<strong>on</strong> h<strong>on</strong>ey bees<br />
• Under investigati<strong>on</strong> in France and has been banned in Germany for certain seed treatments<br />
Chlordec<strong>on</strong>e (source: UNEP 2007):<br />
• Insecticide used mainly in banana plantati<strong>on</strong>s to c<strong>on</strong>trol the banana weevil Cosmopolites<br />
sordidus<br />
• Indirect impact <strong>on</strong> <strong>sugar</strong><strong>cane</strong> in the French Caribbean islands (esp. Guadalupe), where banana<br />
and <strong>sugar</strong><strong>cane</strong> are frequently cultivated in rotati<strong>on</strong><br />
• Chemically very similar to Mirex, which is listed under the Stockholm C<strong>on</strong>venti<strong>on</strong><br />
• Highly toxic to aquatic organisms<br />
• Highly persistent in the envir<strong>on</strong>ment<br />
• Readily absorbed into the body and accumulates following prol<strong>on</strong>ged exposure<br />
• Both acutely and chr<strong>on</strong>ically toxic: according to experimental animal studies, neurotoxic and<br />
immunotoxic; produces reproductive, musculoskeletal and liver toxicity<br />
• Possible human carcinogen according to the Internati<strong>on</strong>al Agency for Research <strong>on</strong> Cancer<br />
(IARC group 2B)<br />
• Potential reproductive e� ects<br />
• Producti<strong>on</strong> ceased in developed countries (use forbidden in the early 1990s), but still used in<br />
some developing countries<br />
• In Guadalupe and Martinique (French overseas departments) soil polluti<strong>on</strong> caused by previous<br />
use of Chlordec<strong>on</strong>e led to restricti<strong>on</strong>s in the use of food products produced <strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>taminated<br />
soils<br />
• Guadalupe (France) has more than 5000 ha of soils polluted due to the use of this insecticide.<br />
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<strong>agrochemicals</strong> management<br />
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