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0317/2013 - Health surveillance and agribusiness: The impact of pesticides on health and the environment. Danger in sight!
Vigilância em saúde e agronegócio: Os impactos dos agrotóxicos na saúde e no ambiente. Perigo à vista!

Author:

• Elias Nasrala Neto - Nasrala Neto, E. - CUIABÁ, MT - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - <enasrala@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Wanderlei Antonio Pignati - Pignati, W. A - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - <pignatimt@terra.com.br>
• Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz - Lacaz, F.A.C - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - <franlacaz@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-3756

Thematic Area:

Políticas em Saúde

Abstract:

Pesticides are abundantly used by agribusiness. This can cause damage to the environment and health. Institutions in the agriculture, environment and health sectors have legal and statutory duties to supervise its use. Based on interviews carried with managers responsible of the Municipal Secretaries and union leaders representing the workers and farmers. Managers and farmer’s discourse present the belief that pesticides are essential to productivity and do not generate impacts on health and on the environment. No policies or institutional relations monitoring of pesticide use were neither identified nor being under development. Farmers unions are for the agribusiness as rural workers ones were not able to develop joint policies that may benefit the health of the workers themselves, their families and that of the society in general. It is concluded on the need to develop a model for sustainable agriculture, healthy and free of pesticides and that organized society and the institutions responsible build actions that meet the interests of people living and working in the field or consuming the agricultural products mainly controlling risks and consequences that can and should be avoided.

Keywords:

PesticidesHealth and Epidemiological SurveillanceHealth Surveillance of the WorkersHealth Policy

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Nasrala Neto, E., Pignati, W. A, Lacaz, F.A.C. Health surveillance and agribusiness: The impact of pesticides on health and the environment. Danger in sight!. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2013/Jul). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/health-surveillance-and-agribusiness-the-impact-of-pesticides-on-health-and-the-environment-danger-in-sight/13529?id=13529&id=13529



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