Senate Agriculture Committee approves PL that could put more poison on your plate

O 1.459 PL / 2022 It has been in progress in the National Congress since 1999, and was voted on by the Senate Committee in a hurry.

Called the Poison Bill by some senators, the matter modifies the rules for the approval and marketing of pesticides, and replaces the original project authored by Blairo Maggi, a former minister and senator who is also a member of agribusiness.

In 23 years of processing in the National Congress, the text underwent several changes. The proposal deals with research, experimentation, production, marketing, import and export, packaging and final disposal and inspection. 

The approved text says that only the Ministry of Agriculture can authorize the use of pesticides, unless Anvisa says no.

The project also changes the nomenclature of “pesticides”, which would now be called “pesticide” and changes the explicit classification of products harmful to human health and the environment, in addition to other changes.

NGOs, environmentalists and politicians react

Greenpeace Brazil is already launching a campaign against the project's approval in the Congress plenary. Other organizations joined the campaign, calling the project's supporters the “cancer bench”.

A Alliance for Adequate and Healthy Eating A petition has already been signed to stop the project:

According to a Report by Repórter Brasil, several bodies in the scientific community have already taken a stance against the PL, including Inca, Fiocruz, Anvisa, the Ministry of Health and the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science.

The UN also spoke out: “Human Rights in Brazil and the protection of the environment are at risk with the approval of the Poison Bill”, said Marcos A. Orellana, special rapporteur of the UN (United Nations) on toxics and rights humans.

(With Agência Senado)

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