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Abstract(s)
The Portuguese Pesticide Regulation Authority
(AFN) classifies the fungicide MANCOZEB
as Harmful (Xn) or Irritant (Xi), ignoring
that: in UE, the European Food Safety
Authority (EFSA) classify, beyond Xi, as R63
– Possible risk of harm to the unborn child;
and, in the USA, the Environmental Protection
Agence (EPA) classify as Carcinogenic (Probable
human carcinogen). These reality justify
that mancozeb is a optimum example, in
Portugal, of the strange and frequent diversity
of toxicological classification of pesticides!
This is quite serious as mancozeb is one of
the two active ingredients (a.i.) most frequent
in Portugal, as an individual a.i and 16 mixtures
with the total of 65 products, and with a very
high consumption (833,6 t) in 2009 in a 3º place
after sulfur and, since 2001, the glyphosate
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carcinogen diversity pesticide R63 toxicological classification
Pedagogical Context
Citation
"Revista de Ciências Agrárias". ISSN 0871-018x. 35 (2) (2012) 118-125