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No ban in Thailand on dangerous agricultural poisons

By Editorial
Posted in News from Thailand
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February 15 2019

Yesterday, the National Hazardous Substances Committee requested a network of 700 organizations to ban a number of hazardous species agricultural poison rejected. This was requested by the Ministry of Health and the Ombudsman.

The Ombudsman already asked the committee in December to ban paraquat. The network is now considering an appeal to the Central Administrative Court.

The committee only wants to ban three types of agricultural poison if there are alternatives. It does recognize that improper use can lead to serious consequences for the health of users and the environment.

In Thailand, many more pesticides which are banned elsewhere in the world, for example because they are carcinogenic.

Source: Bangkok Post

Number of times read: 244

13 responses to “No ban in Thailand on dangerous agricultural poisons”

  1. brabant man says up
    15 February 2019 at 11: 18

    Previous reports regarding the harmfulness of Thai food in general and the advice to buy European imported frozen products have recently been responded with scorn by many.
    In the trend of 'I've been eating Thai vegetables for years and I'm not bothered by anything'.
    But it is clear and it appears that the population is knowingly poisoned by their own government.
    And none of all political parties in Thailand has this problem in its program. The plush, also in Thailand, is more important than the interests of the voter.

    • Jasper says up
      16 February 2019 at 01: 04

      And I just want to add that exactly the same applies to pork and chicken meat, and all farmed fish and shrimp. 80% of all fish and fish products consumed in Thailand are farmed, by the way.
      Huge amounts of antibiotics are used preventively, the fish and shrimps swim in polluted water. The food for the animals is packed with additives, among other things to grow faster and bigger. There is virtually no control over it.

      My family almost exclusively eats imported products here.

      • brabant man says up
        16 February 2019 at 12: 23

        If you also know that CP is one of the world's largest exporters of frozen chicken meat and that its chicken products are available under various names in all Dutch supermarkets. I read somewhere that the share on the Dutch market is above 90%.
        Then I don't even want to talk about the 'delicious' Tilapia and Pangasius fish. Cheap in the Netherlands but heavily polluted with growth hormones and antibiotics. Sales are allowed, I heard from a fish importer, because this fish comes from so-called 3rd world countries, so that is sad. Moral of this story, not only in Thailand.

        • Jasper says up
          17 February 2019 at 02: 03

          Fortunately, in the Netherlands there is a wide choice of organic, ecological products.
          In addition, we have the star system, products from our own region, via the internet a good package of floodplain cattle from nature, barnyard pigs from Baambrugge who really walk and live in the pasture, etc. etc.

          If people choose poor import products out of (false) economy, which, by the way, taste like nothing except additives, they should know that themselves.
          I also choose to eat healthy in the Netherlands!

  2. William van Beveren says up
    15 February 2019 at 11: 47

    My neighbor here drives out about 6 times a day with a poison tank on his back, and so 5 more men in my street.
    good livelihood.

  3. nick says up
    15 February 2019 at 11: 59

    The national cie. is of course under intense pressure from lobbyists from the industries that sell these long-growing poisons, comparable to the pressure from the agro giant Monsanto (Bayer) in Europe and elsewhere in the world not to ban the cancer-causing pesticide Roundup (glyphosate).

  4. Christian says up
    15 February 2019 at 12: 03

    Very sad that the ban is not yet in place. Maybe, just maybe an appeal will succeed.
    A lot of poison is used in agriculture and that without knowledge.

  5. Show says up
    15 February 2019 at 14: 58

    Thais only think about money. It used to be the poor Chinese who moved to Thailand. They don't care about people who get sick.sad

  6. Jozef says up
    15 February 2019 at 15: 12

    Farmers want yield and convenience. They don't care about the environment or the health of others.

    • Johnny B.G says up
      16 February 2019 at 16: 28

      Every entrepreneur wants yield, but if the virus pressure on plants is so great that it is difficult to have a reasonable income without resources.
      Then we come back to the well-known story… Is the consumer prepared to have less choice and perhaps that the vegetables will not be too beautiful and also want to pay a little more for them.
      The answer is, of course, already known.

      Consumers hardly take responsibility themselves, but they do complain about the production process.

  7. Keith 2 says up
    15 February 2019 at 15: 20

    Let's not forget the use of formaldehyde in meat, shrimps, long beans, etc.
    http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/health-ministry-warns-increasing-use-formalin-vendors-fresh-markets/

  8. rentier says up
    16 February 2019 at 05: 02

    Not only pesticides but also growth promoters are a problem! Let me call it Chemical 'Poei' and have learned how that Import works. Urea is an important component as the white globules mixed with it. Gas is needed to make it and the largest production comes from Russia, but even more so from the Ukraine. There is no getting in the way when it comes to Imports because they are corrupt government officials who are in it themselves and protect the entire trade for their own 'pocketing'. It is impossible to get an import permit while there are smaller factories, for example in Kanchanaburi area, that would like to buy through other channels and import themselves because they now have to pay very high prices. This is how it works with many Import and Export markets in Thailand. They are protected Monopolies based on large-scale corruption that people go to great lengths to maintain.

  9. lashing says up
    16 February 2019 at 17: 08

    Reading all the comments makes me fear, do I have to live here any longer??


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