{"id":23309,"date":"2018-09-10T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/?p=23309"},"modified":"2018-09-10T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:16:41","slug":"pesticides-residues-endocrine-disruptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/2018\/09\/10\/pesticides-residues-endocrine-disruptors\/","title":{"rendered":"New report: nearly two thirds of pesticides residues in European food are suspected endocrine disruptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French NGO G\u00e9n\u00e9rations Futures<\/strong>, a Pesticide Action Network Europe and HEAL member organisation, studied the EFSA report<\/a> \u201c2016 EU report on pesticide residues in food\u201d<\/em> published in July 2018, looking for the share of endocrine disrupting pesticides in all the residues found.
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In the overall monitoring programmes ( EU coordinated programme and national programmes) 84 657 food samples were tested. 49,3% of these samples contained at least one quantified pesticide residue (or several). MRLs were exceeded in 3,8% of the samples. 109 843 residues were quantified in total and related to a total of 41 722 samples and 350 different pesticides.<\/p>\n

G\u00e9n\u00e9rations Futures<\/a> checked these 350 pesticides. 157 of them (44,86%) are included in the Tedx database (created by Theo Colborn and listing chemicals for which at least one published scientific study<\/a> finds an ED effect) and are thus suspected endocrine disruptors.<\/p>\n

These 157 suspected ED pesticides accounted for 69433 residues which amounts to 63,21% of the total 109 843 pesticides residues found by EFSA.<\/strong><\/p>\n