Business toxic: carcinogenic chemicals sprayed trains
malezales In a launch rail glyphosate, a highly polluting poison. They tried to stop them and threatened to "disappear": "Eye have Julio López in a vase."
by Paul Noto The poison cloud was spreading throughout the territory when the inhabitants of Turdera took courage and faced the crew to prevent further their work. The data had alerted a neighbor. It was Wednesday 23 of April 7 and a group of exterminators hired by the railway company UGOFE SA, glyphosate applied to pasture land of Finky Green Country, just around the railroad tracks. Does the problem? The substance is classified as an agro-chemical highly toxic to humans. Mims That night, in full tension, one of the sprayers launched the phrase: "Look that Julio Lopez I have it in a vase." A clear threat. Alejandro Almeida, a member of the Association Assembly Turdera and Water Forum, told 24CON: "In October they said they were going to beat and rape, but this round went from shock to disappear."
Fumigators withdrew the refusal of the neighbors
The story did not end well. In the end the workers left the scene and flew the bitter taste the neighborhood, as also flew glyphosate particles remained suspended for a while. With all this, neighbors and environmental protection organizations decided to expedite a draft ordinance to prohibit their use across the district. Attempt to present the initiative in the Legislative Council of Lomas de Zamora. "Although I have to enter a Councilman, so this Thursday afternoon we met with Carasatore Santiago (president of the local legislature) and the weekend with officials of the opposition, "added Alexander, to seek consensus. Poison The theme, or rather, the problem is not new. Already in 2008, in Cordoba, was the first obstacle against the use of glyphosate. The situation was chaotic, especially in the Barrio Ituzaingó Annex, where an NGO reported that 200 people had cancer. At that time, the town's population stood at 5 000 inhabitants. Shocking. "There are cases of children 18 to 25 years with tumors in the head. Boys aged 22 and 23 who have died. There are more of thirteen cases of leukemia in children and young people ", describing the Mothers of Ituzaingó.
Glyphosate (N-phosphonomethylglycine, C3H8NO5P, CAS 1071-83-6) is a total herbicide, kills plants and shrubs. Is absorbed by the leaves and not the roots and also works as a pesticide. Its use is strongly linked to the soybean crop, and thrown in the fields of Interior by air. The company that markets in the country is Monsanto and marketed under the name Roundup. The dispute over its implementation remains. In the early '90s the multinational was reported by the Environmental Protection Agency United States, which found irregularities and falsification in tests performed scientists in their laboratories.
In Argentina, real scientists over the limits bid for political pseudo loaded dye. Especially after the war that kept the government and the sectors of the field representatives, by resolution 125.
is why on 19 January last year, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner issued Decree 21/2009, which created the National Commission of Inquiry. Its main objective was to provide guidelines for determining the rational use of chemicals and agrochemicals, combined with awareness campaigns . This was accompanied by studies of researcher Andrew Carrasco, Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Ministry of Defence, concerning the CONICET, who stated that glyphosate could lead to neural defects, intestinal and heart in human embryos. One hypothesis as completely refuted by the National Health Service and Food Quality (SENASA), who lists the product as "slightly toxic." That's why the country does not exist in a law that prohibited throughout the national territory. Each authority is provincial, municipal, or at most, which should make their own rules. But what happens in the Suburbs? In the Buenos Aires area, the agro-toxics law No. 10699, raises two impediments to rural areas.
On the one hand, if you must spray air to no more than 1500 meters high (so as not to spread the particles), and ground to not less than 500 meters away from any urban area on the other not allowed to transport pesticides cities without the permission of the municipality.
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what happened in Lomas de Zamora, Almeida told the media: "This means that local authorities can stop it now, covered under a provincial law, but they do not." But this southern district is not the only commitment. In Morón
games, Lanús, and Vicente López ban their application. Is that the railway companies (such as UGOFE and TBA), spray the grass near the tracks in order to eliminate any pests. If they do it with glyphosate, saving about a third of the cost compared to the value which would charge an outsourced company to do the same task with grass cutting machines. "In contrast, our project does not say that it is forbidden to spray with glyphosate, no action is being sentenced, but the consequence. We propose that no contamination of the territory of Lomas, because glyphosate is also introduced into the groundwater and soil, "he said Almeida.
