The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention at the University of Edinburgh launched in September 2017 with support from an Incubator Grant of the Open Philanthropy Project Fund, on the recommendation of GiveWell, USA.
CPSP works to identify pesticides responsible for most harms if ingested, provide this information to the pesticide regulators to guide their policy making and regulatory decisions, and then observe the effect of these changes on suicides and other effects of pesticides. In 2020-2021, CPSP will continue to cooperate with partners in India and Nepal, and......
A key aim of CPSP’s work on pesticide regulation is to increase capacity for effective pesticide regulation at national level. CPSP aims to increase its work outside of Nepal and India by engaging with regional pesticide regulation bodies, for example the Coordinating Group of Pesticide Control Boards of the Caribbean (CGPC), the Southern African Pesticide......
Removing highly hazardous pesticides from agriculture requires cultural change, including movement to integrated pest management and agroecology methods which preserve natural predators while minimising pesticide use. We support these efforts in a modest way, always trying to identify pivotal points where modest investment of time, people or funds offers the potential for significant impact....
Component parts of the United Nations working on highly hazardous pesticides (FAO, WHO, UNEP) provide technical advice to countries and offer the most effective route to international change and impact, particularly through governing bodies: the World Health Assembly and FAO Conference. CPSP works with the WHO and FAO looking at suicide prevention (WHO) and pesticide......
Bans of HHP will not prevent all suicidal deaths if patients are treated by doctors as if they have ingested potentially lethal pesticides, since treatment for these patients can be hazardous in its own right. We will therefore work with the World Health Organisation to develop international and then national guidelines for the management of......
LAST SEPTEMBER, a teenage girl in a village in southern India ended her life after an argument with her family. She had been reprimanded by her father for misplacing the papers she needed to take the entrance test to medical school. Distraught, she swallowed pesticide that her father, a farmer, kept for use on crops. Consuming......
Abstract Suicide by pesticide ingestion is one of the three most common global means of suicide, causing over 150,000 deaths each year. The majority occur in rural agricultural communities, where pesticides are readily available to small-scale farmers and their families in poor under-resourced households. In addition to enormous individual, communal and societal suffering, as well......
MUMBAI: India’s 2011 ban on endosulfan may have contributed to almost 30,000 fewer suicides by ingestion of pesticide, suggests a recent analysis. Researchers estimated what suicide rates may have been in 2011-14 based on the previous years’ trends, and then compared those projections to the actual numbers for that period. They found 20,146 fewer male and 8,418......
Press Release – States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countries says UN expert.pdf GENEVA (XX July 2020) – The practice of wealthy States exporting their banned toxic chemicalsto poorer nations lacking the capacity to control the risks is deplorable and must end, a UN expertsaid today, with the endorsement of 35 fellow......
Government plans to ban 27 pesticides “We have released the draft gazette notification for banning these pesticides. Companies may give their objections and representations within 45 days from May 14 before the final notification is issued after review of their objections,” said an agriculture ministry official, who did not wish to be identified. New Delhi:......
Government plans to ban 27 pesticides “We have released the draft gazette notification for banning these pesticides. Companies may give their objections and representations within 45 days from May 14 before the final notification is issued after review of their objections,” said an agriculture ministry official, who did not wish to be identified. New Delhi:......
The world’s biggest pesticide companies make billions of dollars a year from chemicals found by independent authorities to pose high hazards to human health or the environment, according to an analysis by campaigners.The research also found a higher proportion of these highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) in the companies’ sales in poorer nations than in rich......
Commodity crops grown mainly for animal feed are a driving force in the global market for hazardous pesticides, analysis of exclusive agrochemical industry data has found.Unearthed and the Swiss NGO Public Eye obtained and analysed more than $23bn of pesticide sales data from 2018 from leading agribusiness intelligence firm Phillips McDougall, in which we identified......
Michael Eddleston is a professor of Clinical Toxicology at the University of Edinburg with over two decades of experience in suicide by ingesting pesticide. He is also the director of Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention and was recently in Nepal as a principal investigator of a research analysing self-poisoning in the country. Excerpts of his......
Dhanarisi J, Shihana F, Harju K, Mohamed F, Verma V, Shahmy S, Vanninen P, Kostiainen O, Gawarammana I, Eddleston M. A pilot clinical study of the neuromuscular blocker rocuronium to reduce the duration of ventilation after organophosphorus insecticide poisoning. Clinical Toxicology 2019, in press. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650.2019.1643467 Arya V, Page A, Gunnell D, Dandona R, Mannan H,......
