Inventario Nacional de Plaguicidas - Ministerio del Ambiente

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PROYECTO PNI-COP
were not reported. The illegal commerce of
pesticides exists through diverse modalities:
contraband, ambulatory sale, falsifications and
adulterations. The contraband of pesticides is
made mainly in two zones: frontier line with
Ecuador (through Tumbes and Piura) and
frontier line with Bolivia (through Puno). Signs
and proof of the adulteration and falsification
of POPs pesticides and other prohibited
pesticides has been found, and is very common
in diverse regions of the country; mainly in the
north and central coast (Piura, Chiclayo and
Lima), Amazon Forest (Iquitos and Tarapoto)
and central and south mountains (Huancayo
and Puno).
RECOMMENDATIONS
We recommend to the National Implementation
Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POP) in Peru» project to
considerate:
- elimination of detected POPs pesticides,
- implementation of the preventive plan about
illegal commerce of pesticides,
• The pesticide storage is another problem in the
regional offices of SENASA, especially in those
regions where the contraband and the
adulteration are greater. The quantities of
seized pesticides are very large and these
institutions own neither appropriated storages
nor appropriate infrastructure. We find this
situation in Huancayo (Junín), Motupe
(Lambayeque), Puno, Tarapoto (San Martín),
Piura and Tumbes. Inadequate storage of
obsolete pesticides represents an enormous
problem. The total amount reported was about
2 668,28 kg and 9 854,41 L of pesticides
(obsolete mainly) stored in SENASA.
- the systematization of pesticides sales by
regions, which can be very useful for health
and agriculture sectors,
- the registry and detailed systematization of the
cases of poisoning by pesticides,
- spread information and to educate the rural
population about pesticide effects, as well about
mechanisms for a safe handling of these
substances.