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Acknowledgements Your daily posion: the second UK pesticide exposure reoport BY: Alison Craig, Pesticide Action Network UK, alisoncraig@pan-uk.org WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO: The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, The Chapman Trust, PEX Project Steering Group, Christopher Stopes, and to the respondents to our surveys. DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Rebecca Richings, Pesticide Action Network UK PUBLISHED BY: Pesticide Action Network UK Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4JX Tel: 020 7065 0905 admin@pan-uk.org www.pan-uk.org ISBN 0 9549542 0 3 Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this report concerning the status of pesticide active ingredients is correct. However, the regulatory position at the European Union level is not static, and the situation for any one pesticide may have changed since going to press. PAN UK cannot be held responsible for such changes. PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK UK
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 1 PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN THE ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2 FOOD RESIDUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 3 PESTICIDES IN WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 4 DISCUSSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 APPENDICES Your daily poison: the second UK pesticide exposure report Alison Craig, PAN UK May 2006 1 Pesticide usage trends in the UK 1992-2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 2 Organisations involved in the regulation of pesticides and pesticide laws . . . . . . . . . . . .20 3 The regulatory testing and assessment of pesticides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 4a ‘The human health incidents survey’: pesticide exposures and poisonings reported to the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) by companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 4b. Pesticide poisonings reported to the National health Service (NHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 4c. PAN UK survey: pesticide exposures reported to local authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 5a Food residues (Europe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 5b Food residues (UK testing programme) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 6a Pesticides in the public drinking water supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 6b PAN UK survey: pesticides in the public drinking water supply – worst offenders . . . . . . .41 6c PAN UK survey: pesticides in private drinking water supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 7 Members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pesticides and Organophosphates, formed July 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 8 Prague Declaration on Endocrine Disruption, May 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 9 Lethal dose data, human and animal: inter- and intra-species variability . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 10 Copies of PAN UK questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 1
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