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March 26, 2021

https://youtu.be/uLyGlXxs_k4 Tens of thousands of people, like teenager Shashikala from Sri Lanka, died from poisoning by a lethal pesticide made in the UK. Hundreds of secret documents and a whistleblower raise questions about whether manufacturer Syngenta put profit before people. The weedkiller Gramoxone, with its active ingredient paraquat, has helped farmers grow food cheaply for decades. But...

‘A sip can kill’: did a chemical company misrepresent data to avoid making a safer product?

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March 26, 2021

A former Syngenta scientist alleges lives could have been saved with tweaks to the formulation of weedkiller paraquat Around the world, the deadly dangers of a weedkiller called paraquat are well known. When working with the highly toxic herbicide, farmers and other users take care not to splash or spill even small amounts of the product, heeding...

The Paraquat poisoning problem

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March 26, 2021

JON HEYLINGS WAS 34 when he found the notebook that would upend his life. A junior scientist at Imperial Chemical Industries, Heylings happened upon it in 1990 as he was trying to solve a mystery. Trained in toxicology, he had been brought to the company three years earlier to lead a team that would work to...

The Paraquat Papers: How Syngenta’s bad science helped keep the world’s deadliest weedkiller on the market

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March 26, 2021

Hundreds of secret company documents and an insider's testimony have revealed how a pesticide giant used manipulated data and ineffective 'safety' measures to keep paraquat on the market - in the face of thousands of deaths. A new Unearthed and Public Eye investigation FULL TEXT: unearthed.greenpeace.org ...

A New Strategy to Reduce Suicide by Pesticide Poisoning

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February 25, 2021

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 pesticides...

Prevention of pesticide suicides and the right to life: The intersection of human rights and public health priorities

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January 18, 2021

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 as...

Pesticide suicides reduce post 2011 ban on endosulfan

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December 29, 2020

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...

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September 22, 2020

Effectiveness of calcium channel blockade for organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide poisoning ...

M Eddleston pesticide suicide prevention publications 2017-19

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September 7, 2020

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/10.1080/15563650.2019.1643467Arya V, Page A, Gunnell D, Dandona R, Mannan H, Eddleston M,...