Even against your cat's cockroaches or fleas, insecticides must be used with care, warns the health agency Anses, which publishes an unpublished photograph of the widespread use of household pesticides. In full polemic on the minimum distance between houses and areas of application of plant protection products
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Les pesticides et fongicides abondamment utilisés dans l’agriculture ont engendré des mutants résistants qui menacent l’homme. Ce serait le cas de Candida auris. Ce champignon résiste à tous les traitements et médicaments fongicides. Il prolifère aux quatre coins du monde et commence à devenir un véritable serial killer puisque la
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American farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
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It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
PlusThousands of U.S. farmers filed lawsuits in 2017 against Monsanto and dicamba, a herbicide marketed by the group. Dicamba is a volatile herbicide that spreads to nearby fields and devastates almost everything in its path. You thought you knew about glyphosate? There's something better: dicamba! The services of
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Nicolas Hulot a affirmé sa volonté d’interdire le glyphosate dans les trois ans, faisant écho à la tribune de 54 députés LREM, à deux jours du vote de la Commission Européenne sur un éventuel renouvellement de la licence du fameux herbicide pour dix ans. MISE A JOUR DU 25 OCTOBRE
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Year in and year out, French farmers dump 30,000 tonnes of herbicides into their crops. The best known, probably because of its bad reputation, is Monsanto's Roundup. This practice is denounced by environmental associations and organic farmers who have been doing without it for a long time. However, for
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That's it: the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, has just made public its long-awaited assessment of the controversial pesticide glyphosate, better known in France under the label Roundup, Monsanto's flagship herbicide, whose authorisation expires soon. On the basis of this report, it is now up to the European Commission to decide.
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