Where governments do regulate pesticides, doesn that mean the pesticides they allow on the market are safe?
No. Regulatory schemes commonly require that pesticides be registered or licensed before they can be sold within the country. In making licensing decisions, governments use industry-supplied health and safety data to evaluate a pesticide’s potential to cause harm. A major scandal broke out in 1983, when the U.S. government revealed that 212 pesticides on the market had been registered with invalid data. A private laboratory, Industrial Bio-Test (IBT) Laboratories, had falsified data or used sloppy lab techniques on two thirds of its safety testing for pesticide companies. At least 25 percent of all pesticide registrations in Canada had also relied on the invalid data, and in many developing countries the percentages are far higher. • If so many of the poisonings are in the Third World, isn’t it mainly then responsibility of the Third World governments to ensure that pesticides are used sagely in their countries? All governments should act to protect their citizens from dangerous and in
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