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[00:00:00] a disciplinary investigation and a 45-day unpaid
[00:00:03] leave, after which Daniel Zapia requested the transfer to another
[00:00:07] jurisdiction.
[00:00:12] Judge Mendez continues to spray toxic chemicals close to the source of
[00:00:15] the Paraguay River.
[00:00:18] As a Supreme Court judge, his vote carries weight in legal matters
[00:00:22] related to pesticides.
[00:00:25] He did not respond to our requests for an
[00:00:27] interview.
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[00:01:46] After months spent investigating and being met with nothing with
[00:01:49] refusals, we were granted a meeting with one of the biggest land owners
[00:01:53] in the country in northern Brazil on the border of the
[00:01:56] Sierra and Rio Grande del Norte states.
[00:02:01] There are melon fields as far as the eye can
[00:02:03] see, 30,00 hectares or the
[00:02:07] equivalent of feel of 17 km wide and
[00:02:10] 17 km long. Agricola
[00:02:13] famosa is the biggest producer of melons and watermelons in
[00:02:17] Brazil and one of the biggest exporters in the
[00:02:19] world. It employs 9,000
[00:02:22] workers.
[00:02:26] This small empire is led by Luis Roberto.
[00:03:12] Chlorine is to kill bacteria, it's a
[00:03:14] bactericide.
[00:03:17] 65% of reduction is destined for export, the
[00:03:21] majority of their clients are
[00:03:22] European,
[00:03:25] now these are ready depending on the brand, the
[00:03:28] type it will...
[00:04:30] there was a cut with the plant and it's more exposed to fungus
[00:04:34] attacks, so this is a fungicide to prevent the futtersche from being left behind.
[00:04:48] Alex Carlos is Agricola famosa's quality
[00:04:51] manager. He showed us the test results from a private European
[00:04:55] laboratory on fruit samples taken prior to their
[00:04:58] setting off for the European Union.
[00:05:02] This is an example that we have
[00:05:06] of our monitoring to ensure that every product
[00:05:10] we deliver, that we sell, is...
[00:06:12] as a basis to to take this,
[00:06:16] however in Brazil this product is authorized,
[00:06:19] Alex Carlos showed us the Brazilian law, next
[00:06:23] approved
[00:06:26] initiative.
[00:06:35] by this logic, toxic for European bees, but harmless to their
[00:06:39] Brazilian cousins. No worries, as far as
[00:06:50] would you use it or not? If there is
[00:06:54] scientifically proven study that it is harmful to
[00:06:57] health, we would not use
[00:07:00] it, and even in Brazil, if it is allowed in Brazil,
[00:07:04] it's because this question doesn't make much sense because
[00:07:07] I am not the one who conducts the studies of whether it is toxic
[00:07:10] or not, understand? The people
[00:07:14] who do are the governmental bodies that we believe
[00:07:18] are serious.
[00:07:21] Luis Roberto admits to the ambiguity of the situation, but he
[00:07:24] adheres to the letter of the law, which gives him the green
[00:07:27] light to export his crops, at
[00:07:30] the risk of contributing to an unfortunate boomerang
[00:07:33] effect.
[00:07:36] According to Larisa Bombardi, whose research relies on documents
[00:07:39] provided by the European Commission,
[00:07:58] So what is actually happening is what we call the circle
[00:08:02] of poisoning. Pesticides are prohibited in the European
[00:08:06] Union, but they are sold to countries like
[00:08:09] Brazil, they are used here, they potentially... that
[00:08:12] return in coffee, oranges, orange juice, tropical
[00:08:16] fruits, they return to the European
[00:08:18] Union. So, this is
[00:08:22] certainly an element of concern for the population, for civil
[00:08:26] society in the European Union.
[00:08:37] In Germany, Greenpeace has carried out investigation on
[00:08:40] fruit shipments imported from Brazil.
[00:09:00] What surprised us is that we were able to detect
[00:09:04] pesticide residues in almost all samples,
[00:09:06] and 11 of the 35 active ingredients were
[00:09:10] not approved in Europe.
[00:09:14] "We find that alarming, yes, we
[00:09:17] found, for example, chlorothalonil, which is a
[00:09:20] fungicide that is distributed by both manufacturers,
[00:09:23] Bayer and BASF, in Brazil. It is
[00:09:27] considered highly dangerous,
[00:09:29] it reappears in groundwater, it
[00:09:33] is considered carcinogenic, it has a negative impact
[00:09:37] on uh
[00:09:39] animals, and therefore this substance's
[00:09:43] approval has been withdrawn."
[00:10:06] Regarding this question, now, what you need to know is
[00:10:09] that there is legislation. In Europe, as in all
[00:10:13] countries in the world, with maximum residue
[00:10:16] levels that are authorized in imported
[00:10:20] products, and that is precisely what guarantees that the
[00:10:23] residues of... plant protection products contained in
[00:10:26] imports have a limit and are not toxic
[00:10:30] for consumers and consumer health, so there is no
[00:10:34] risk for the European consumer to consume products that
[00:10:37] are imported from any country in the world because the legislation
[00:10:41] guarantees that the residues of these products are
[00:10:45] uh are not toxic for consumers.
[00:10:48] consommateurs
[00:10:54] in... scarcely the opinion of some European parliament members who
[00:10:58] find the very notion of residue limits cause for
[00:11:01] concern.
[00:11:08] what do they do? They have now invented residue
[00:11:11] limits, and these residue limits are
[00:11:14] authorized, you see, so it's 0.02
[00:11:17] microgram per kilo, but why is there such a threshold?
[00:11:21] since normally it's forbidden, it should be
[00:11:23] zero? So on one hand, Europe is proud to say it
[00:11:27] has the best legislation in the world, all highly
[00:11:30] toxic products, we ban them in Europe, but the act
[00:11:33] of exporting these products to third countries which return as
[00:11:37] food, they are also contaminating European
[00:11:40] citizens, so it creates a cycle of
[00:11:42] poison.
[00:11:50] one they call the cocktail effect, produced by the
[00:11:54] combination of...
[00:12:02] This is frightening when you look at this pesticide mix,
[00:12:06] right? So the evaluations are always, from a legal
[00:12:09] perspective, based on the individual substance. And
[00:12:12] if I now, as we found in one sample, five different
[00:12:16] pesticides, the question is, what does
[00:12:18] that mean? And the big question is, do
[00:12:22] the effects add up?
[00:12:27] when you have all these chemical substances, a part of which are also
[00:12:30] endocrine disruptors, it creates a cocktail effect
[00:12:34] that is very difficult to measure, or even impossible to measure because the number
[00:12:38] of combinations is infinite, and which will
[00:12:41] have an impact on health. So when we identify a
[00:12:45] risk, what should we do? Well, we must minimize it,
[00:12:48] reduce it, so start by removing, prohibiting potentially
[00:12:52] dangerous substances for health.
[00:13:00] Despite these warnings, Europe continues to authorize the
[00:13:04] export of pesticides deemed toxic at home to
[00:13:07] Africa, the Americas and Asia.
[00:13:10] It's a situation that allows manufacturers to shirk
[00:13:13] responsibility.
[00:13:17] Three quarters of these products are exported to markets that
[00:13:20] have very strict regulations: the
[00:13:23] United States, Japan, Australia, even
[00:13:26] Brazil. These are regulatory systems different from the European
[00:13:30] Union, but they are nonetheless very
[00:13:33] strict. There are no good or bad systems, they simply
[00:13:37] have different
[00:13:38] approaches.
[00:13:41] Back to Seara in northeastern Brazil, the fruit industry
[00:13:45] set up shop in the municipality of Limiero Donorte in the
[00:13:49] early 2000s. Banana fields were quick to spring up around
[00:13:52] villages such as Tome, home to... 1,500
[00:13:55] residents,
[00:13:59] but the forced march of economic development has come a high cost
[00:14:03] to the local populus, which is perilously subjected to aerial
[00:14:06] pesticide spraying. In 2008, Zay
[00:14:10] Maria, a long time resident, decided to fight against the illegal spraying.
[00:14:44] what's ahead, he wants to know if he can take his profit and
[00:14:47] leave.
[00:15:01] the planes cannot spray within 200
[00:15:04] meters of the community, but that one flew over the
[00:15:07] community and people thought it was beautiful, when the
[00:15:11] plane passed, there was that little white cloud, then
[00:15:15] people would go outside to see the plane spraying, I myself had
[00:15:18] 150 chickens in my yard, in one
[00:15:21] day 80 chickens died when the plane finished passing the
[00:15:25] chickens started to die and then Ze Maria
[00:15:29] said: but in 10 years maybe I won't be alive,
[00:15:32] but in 10 years you will see people getting sick with
[00:15:35] cancer, people... children being born with malformations,
[00:15:38] you will see the number of
[00:15:42] terrible diseases that will happen, because
[00:15:45] even male impotence, pesticides
[00:15:48] cause,
[00:15:51] right?
[00:15:55] he was shot on the side of road, his killer was
[00:15:58] arrested, but the person assumed to have.