Stop Paraquat
The campaign “Stop Paraquat”, conducted by non-governmental organisations, trade unions, and scientists around the world, calls to end the production and ban the use of the highly toxic and harmful herbicide.
The critics’ main target is the agri-concern and leading distributor of
paraquat, Syngenta. The company markets the herbicide in over 100 countries, usually under the brand name ‘Gramoxone’. Paraquat is regularly used on banana, coffee, palm oil, rubber, fruit, or pineapple plantations. Growers large and small use it copiously on their maize and rice fields.
Many workers and farmers exposed to paraquat on a regular basis have serious health problems, and deaths caused by the high toxicity of the herbicide, which has no antidote, are not infrequent.
This website contains important information concerning the campaign (links on the right side), as well as many facts about the use of paraquat and various studies on the health problems associated with it (links on the left side).
As an introduction to the subject we recommend the following studies and reports:
«Paraquat: unacceptable health risks for users.» A report written by Richard Isenring for Berne Declaration, Pesticide Action Network UK and the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific, December 2005.
«Paraquat - Syngenta's controversial herbicide» A report written by John Madeley for the Berne Declaration, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Pesticide Action Network UK, Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific, Foro Emaús, April 2002.
Berne Declaration on the effects of paraquat in developing countries
«The perils of paraquat. Sales targeted at developing countries.»
(By Barbara Dinham (PAN UK), June 2003)
The critics’ main target is the agri-concern and leading distributor of
paraquat, Syngenta. The company markets the herbicide in over 100 countries, usually under the brand name ‘Gramoxone’. Paraquat is regularly used on banana, coffee, palm oil, rubber, fruit, or pineapple plantations. Growers large and small use it copiously on their maize and rice fields.
Many workers and farmers exposed to paraquat on a regular basis have serious health problems, and deaths caused by the high toxicity of the herbicide, which has no antidote, are not infrequent.
This website contains important information concerning the campaign (links on the right side), as well as many facts about the use of paraquat and various studies on the health problems associated with it (links on the left side).
As an introduction to the subject we recommend the following studies and reports:
«Paraquat: unacceptable health risks for users.» A report written by Richard Isenring for Berne Declaration, Pesticide Action Network UK and the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific, December 2005.
«Paraquat - Syngenta's controversial herbicide» A report written by John Madeley for the Berne Declaration, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Pesticide Action Network UK, Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific, Foro Emaús, April 2002.
Berne Declaration on the effects of paraquat in developing countries
«The perils of paraquat. Sales targeted at developing countries.»
(By Barbara Dinham (PAN UK), June 2003)
06.02.09 Goodbye Paraquat: Palm Oil, Banana and Tea Producers Saying No to Hazardous...
01.05.07 Syngenta accused of violating FAO code of conduct
17.10.06 Statements at the pressconference 17.10.2006
16.10.06 Is Paraquat Useful for the Environment?
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