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18 6. Introduce and publish, as part of the national pesticides strategy, standardised national protocols for the selection of laboratory analyses of pesticides in food, water and air, for the use of water companies, local authorities, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the Pesticide Residues Committee, and academic and research institutions engaged in this work. 7. Review the approvals of pesticides which are repeatedly detected in water supplies, or detected after a specific number of occurrences, and if residues in water cannot be avoided their approval should be revoked. 8. Provide opportunities for public consultation in decision-making about the extent of testing and its resourcing. There should be a window for public consultation in the approvals process for every pesticide, as there exists for genetically modified organisms. 9. Oblige agrochemical and veterinary medicines companies trading in UK to disclose full details and data from tests conducted on human subjects of any substance approved in the UK anywhere in the world since 2000, so that their ethical and scientific implications can be scrutinised by policy-makers, parliament, and the public, and regulatory control introduced. STRENGTHEN POST-APPROVALS HUMAN HEALTH SURVEILLANCE 10. Act on the Royal Commission’s recommendations and to introduce an effective surveillance scheme for pesticide- related disease, to be run by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) (and the equivalent organisations in the devolved administrations), the cost of which (estimated at £5-10 million per year) should be covered by a levy on pesticides sales. The HPA and related organisations in the devolved administrations should collect population data on pesticides and other chemicals and their biomarkers suspected to cause chronic diseases. A national pesticide and chemical exposure database should be initiated. 11. Press within the European Parliament and Commission for a Europe-wide biological monitoring programme of pesticides and chemicals in humans, in conjunction with the Health Protection Agency’s remit above. 12. Implement a programme of primary prevention of diseases linked with pesticides — including cancer and also neurological disease, reproductive disease, immunological disease, respiratory disease, and skin disease — through a national programme of exposure reduction to toxic substances and the adoption of an adequately funded and supported toxics use reduction strategy, including a programme to phase out pesticides which are known to be relatively hazardous. PROVIDE PUBLIC INFORMATION 13. Give residents, walkers, and all other countryside users the right to know what pesticides they are being exposed to by introducing mandatory notification of use both in advance and with signs on site. 14. Initiate a scientific and public debate on the potential benefits of reduced chemical use. Your daily poison
APPENDIX 1 Pesticide usage trends in the UK 1992-2004 Total pesticide usage in Great Britain, 2004 (by weight of active ingredient): 30.6 thousand tonnes; (by area treated) 47.7 million hectares. ‘Treated area’ is the gross area treated with a pesticide, including all repeat applications. Source: Central Science Laboratory Pesticide Usage Survey Group (PUSG) http://pusstats.csl.gov.uk/ All the recent PUSG survey reports are available as pdf documents at: http://www.csl.gov.uk/science/organ/pvm/puskm/pusg.cfm the second UK pesticide exposure report 19
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