Agriculture

We propose a new paradigm, as toxicology currently lacks the proper perspective. From the 1950s to the 1970s, at least one-third of all toxicological testing in the United States, including for chemicals and drugs, was misleading scientists, and this worldwide issue persists today. Moreover, petroleum-based waste and heavy metals have been discovered in pesticide and plasticizer formulations. These contaminations have now reached all forms of life. Widespread exposure to chemical mixtures promotes health and environmental risks. We discovered that pesticides have never undergone long-term testing on mammals in their full commercial formulations by regulatory authorities or the pesticide industry; instead, only their declared active ingredients have been assessed, contrary to environmental law recommendations. The ingredients of these formulations are not fully disclosed, yet the formulations are in general at least 1000 times more toxic at low environmentally relevant doses than the active ingredients alone u

Biologiste, professeur de biologie moléculaire à l'université de Caen. Spécialiste des OGM et des pesticides. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages d’abord controversés tels que “Génétiquement incorrect” et “Ces OGM qui changent le monde” (Flammarion). Auteur plus récemment de “L'Affaire Roundup à la lumière des Monsanto Papers” ‘Actes Sud).