Brazil’s ‘Poison Package’ and Controversial Pesticide Use

Video:  Brazil mulls green light for dangerous pesticides (France 24 English; September 4, 2018)

News Reports:

Brazil:  House Panel approves ‘Poison Bill’ relaxing pesticide rules; experts opposed  (Rafael TATEMOTO, Brasil de Fato; June 28, 2018)

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2018/06/28/brazil-house-panel-approves-poison-bill-relaxing-pesticide-rules-experts-opposed/

Comissão aprova relatório que muda legislação sobre uso de agrotóxicos (Angela BOLDRINI and Natália CANCIAN, FOLHA De San Paolo; 25 jun. 2018)

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2018/06/comissao-aprova-relatorio-que-muda-legislacao-sobre-uso-de-agrotoxicos.shtml

 

‘Toxic garbage will be sold here’  Outcry as Brazil moves to loosen pesticide laws  (Dom PHILLIPS, The Guardian; 25 June 2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/toxic-garbage-will-be-sold-here-outcry-as-brazil-moves-to-loosen-pesticide-laws

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack  (Jenny GONZALES, Mongabay.com; 20 February 2018)

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/brazils-fundamental-pesticide-law-under-attack/

Fateful Harvest:  Why Brazil has a big appetite for risky pesticides  (Paolo PRADA, Reuters Investigates; April 2, 2015)

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-pesticides/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-pesticides/

Selected Research Publications:

“You Don’t Want to Breathe Poison Anymore” – The Failing Response to Pesticide Drift in Brazil’s Communities (Human Rights Watch; July 2018)

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/brazil0718_web.pdf

Pesticide Poisoning in Brazil   (CALDAS, 2016)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eloisa_Caldas/publication/308013830_Pesticide_Poisoning_in_Brazil/links/59ff3955aca272347a29ac33/Pesticide-Poisoning-in-Brazil.pdf