Polluant persistant encore utilisé dans la lutte contre le paludisme dans les pays tropicaux, l’insecticide DDT serait associé à une augmentation du risque et de la sévérité de la maladie d’Alzheimer.
Depuis mai 2012, les agriculteurs peuvent faire reconnaître comme maladie professionnelle une maladie de Parkinson causée par les pesticides. En sera-t-il un jour de même pour Alzheimer ?
Chemicals Raise Women's Diabetes Risk, PillAdvised.com, April 2014
A study from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) shows an association between increased concentrations of common chemicals in the body and an increased risk of diabetes in women. The rate of diabetes in women doubled from 1980 to 2010.
The study notes: “In particular, certain types of environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been implicated as having the ability to alter both adiposity and insulin resistance.” In other words, chemicals can help make you fat and increase your risk of diabetes.
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Court rules in favor of woman hospitalized after being exposed to pesticides while working in vineyard. AFP, Apr. 14
In a first for vineyard workers, a winery has been found guilty of failing to protect its workers from the harmful health effects of pesticides.
Château Monestier La Tour, in southwest France's Bergerac region, was convicted of "inexcusable misconduct" for failing to protect an employee against exposure to pesticides used in the vineyard, after court action dragged on for almost three years.
The worker, identified as Mrs S., was employed in the estate's vineyard but was hospitalized in August 2007, suffering characteristic symptoms of pesticide poisoning including headaches, skin irritation and vomiting. The incident was originally deemed to be a simple workplace accident, but Mrs S. decided to take her claim of misconduct against the château to court.