Health surveillance and agribusiness: the impact of pesticides on health and the environment. Danger ahead!

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Elias Nasrala Neto¹  Francisco Antonio De Castro Lacaz¹  Wanderlei Antonio Pignati¹ 

关键词: Pesticides;    Health and epidemiological surveillance;    Occupational health surveillance;    Health policies;    Agrotóxicos;    Vigilância sanitária e epidemiológica;    Vigilância em saúde do trabalhador;    Políticas de saúde;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-812320141912.03172013

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Pesticides are abundantly used in agribusiness and can be damaging to health and the environment. Society in general and agricultural, environmental and health institutions in particular have a legal and statutory duty to supervise their use. To identify and analyze these actions, interviews were conducted with managers of the municipal offices and union leaders representing the workers and farmers. Managers and rural producers were of the opinion that pesticides are essential to productivity and do not generate any impact on health and the environment. No policies or institutional relations monitoring pesticide use were identified or being considered. Rural workers' unions do not take any political initiatives to benefit the health of the workers themselves, their families and that of society in general. The conclusion draws is the pressing need to develop a model for sustainable agriculture, healthy and free of pesticides and that organized society and responsible institutions must undertake actions that meet the needs of the people who working on the farms or consume the agricultural products harvested there, especially controlling risks and consequences that can and must be avoided.

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