France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM, has published a report on its studies into the use of pesticides and the increasing evidence of their causal effect on grave pathologies, including cancers, among farmers and also among children. Amélie Poinssot interviews toxicologist Xavier Coumoul, a co-author of the report.
In 2013, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM, published its first collective study on the effects of pesticides on human health, and which in France was regarded as a work of reference on the subject. On June 30th this year, it followed up on that research with a new report which has identified further pathologies that can be caused by the products, and also on the probability of their development in humans.
