Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2<br />
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2<br />
1 PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN THE ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3<br />
2 FOOD RESIDUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9<br />
3 PESTICIDES IN WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12<br />
4 DISCUSSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14<br />
6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17<br />
APPENDICES<br />
<strong>Your</strong> daily poison:<br />
the second <strong>UK</strong> pesticide exposure report<br />
Alison Craig, PAN <strong>UK</strong><br />
May 2006<br />
1 <strong>Pesticide</strong> usage trends in the <strong>UK</strong> 1992-2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19<br />
2 Organisations involved in the regulation of pesticides and pesticide laws . . . . . . . . . . . .20<br />
3 The regulatory testing and assessment of pesticides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21<br />
4a ‘The human health incidents survey’: pesticide exposures and poisonings reported to<br />
the <strong>Pesticide</strong>s Safety Directorate (PSD) by companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23<br />
4b. <strong>Pesticide</strong> poisonings reported to the National health Service (NHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24<br />
4c. PAN <strong>UK</strong> survey: pesticide exposures reported to local authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25<br />
5a Food residues (Europe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28<br />
5b Food residues (<strong>UK</strong> testing programme) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29<br />
6a <strong>Pesticide</strong>s in the public drinking water supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39<br />
6b PAN <strong>UK</strong> survey: pesticides in the public drinking water supply – worst offenders . . . . . . .41<br />
6c PAN <strong>UK</strong> survey: pesticides in private drinking water supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42<br />
7 Members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on <strong>Pesticide</strong>s and Organophosphates,<br />
formed July 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43<br />
8 Prague Declaration on Endocrine Disruption, May 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44<br />
9 Lethal dose data, human and animal: inter- and intra-species variability . . . . . . . . . . . . .48<br />
10 Copies of PAN <strong>UK</strong> questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49<br />
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54<br />
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55<br />
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