Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

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Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

JOINT FAO/WHO MEETING ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES Geneva, 9–13 May 2016 SUMMARY REPORT

A Joint Meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the World Health Organization (WHO) Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) was held at WHO Headquarters, Geneva (Switzerland), from 9 to 13 May 2016.

Diazinon, glyphosate and malathion were placed on the agenda by the JMPR Secretariat, based on the recommendation of the last session of JMPR to reevaluate these compounds given the number of new studies that had become available since their last full assessments. The following extracts of the results of the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) are provided to make them accessible to interested parties at an early date.

Issued 16 May 2016

This Issue reports that Glyphosate (158) is linked to causing Non Hodgkin Lymphoma.:

Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide. Several epidemiological studies on cancer outcomes following occupational exposure to glyphosate were available.

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  1. It must be analysed (on the demands of WHO) in human blood, content of:  1)heavy metals and extra trace metals; -2)chemicals included to list of POPs -12, and additional list of 13; -3)chemicals list  destractors of human endocrine system increased during 15 years from 40 to 800  chemicals. This trend  will continue; proposed 3- chemicals must be analysed with  existing lists.  Mankind must decrease using agrochelicals  and their content in air,drinking water and food. In parallel every body must clean his body from these toxic chemicals, especially breast milk