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00:00:00a disciplinary investigation and a 45-day unpaid
00:00:03leave, after which Daniel Zapia requested the transfer to another
00:00:07jurisdiction.
00:00:12Judge Mendez continues to spray toxic chemicals close to the source of
00:00:15the Paraguay River.
00:00:18As a Supreme Court judge, his vote carries weight in legal matters
00:00:22related to pesticides.
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00:01:46After months spent investigating and being met with nothing with
00:01:49refusals, we were granted a meeting with one of the biggest land owners
00:01:53in the country in northern Brazil on the border of the
00:01:56Sierra and Rio Grande del Norte states.
00:02:01There are melon fields as far as the eye can
00:02:03see, 30,00 hectares or the
00:02:07equivalent of feel of 17 km wide and
00:02:1017 km long. Agricola
00:02:13famosa is the biggest producer of melons and watermelons in
00:02:17Brazil and one of the biggest exporters in the
00:02:19world. It employs 9,000
00:02:22workers.
00:02:26This small empire is led by Luis Roberto.
00:03:12Chlorine is to kill bacteria, it's a
00:03:14bactericide.
00:03:1765% of reduction is destined for export, the
00:03:21majority of their clients are
00:03:22European,
00:03:25now these are ready depending on the brand, the
00:03:28type it will...
00:04:30there was a cut with the plant and it's more exposed to fungus
00:04:34attacks, so this is a fungicide to prevent the futtersche from being left behind.
00:04:48Alex Carlos is Agricola famosa's quality
00:04:51manager. He showed us the test results from a private European
00:04:55laboratory on fruit samples taken prior to their
00:04:58setting off for the European Union.
00:05:02This is an example that we have
00:05:06of our monitoring to ensure that every product
00:05:10we deliver, that we sell, is...
00:06:12as a basis to to take this,
00:06:16however in Brazil this product is authorized,
00:06:19Alex Carlos showed us the Brazilian law, next
00:06:23approved
00:06:26initiative.
00:06:35by this logic, toxic for European bees, but harmless to their
00:06:39Brazilian cousins. No worries, as far as
00:06:50would you use it or not? If there is
00:06:54scientifically proven study that it is harmful to
00:06:57health, we would not use
00:07:00it, and even in Brazil, if it is allowed in Brazil,
00:07:04it's because this question doesn't make much sense because
00:07:07I am not the one who conducts the studies of whether it is toxic
00:07:10or not, understand? The people
00:07:14who do are the governmental bodies that we believe
00:07:18are serious.
00:07:21Luis Roberto admits to the ambiguity of the situation, but he
00:07:24adheres to the letter of the law, which gives him the green
00:07:27light to export his crops, at
00:07:30the risk of contributing to an unfortunate boomerang
00:07:33effect.
00:07:36According to Larisa Bombardi, whose research relies on documents
00:07:39provided by the European Commission,
00:07:58So what is actually happening is what we call the circle
00:08:02of poisoning. Pesticides are prohibited in the European
00:08:06Union, but they are sold to countries like
00:08:09Brazil, they are used here, they potentially... that
00:08:12return in coffee, oranges, orange juice, tropical
00:08:16fruits, they return to the European
00:08:18Union. So, this is
00:08:22certainly an element of concern for the population, for civil
00:08:26society in the European Union.
00:08:37In Germany, Greenpeace has carried out investigation on
00:08:40fruit shipments imported from Brazil.
00:09:00What surprised us is that we were able to detect
00:09:04pesticide residues in almost all samples,
00:09:06and 11 of the 35 active ingredients were
00:09:10not approved in Europe.
00:09:14"We find that alarming, yes, we
00:09:17found, for example, chlorothalonil, which is a
00:09:20fungicide that is distributed by both manufacturers,
00:09:23Bayer and BASF, in Brazil. It is
00:09:27considered highly dangerous,
00:09:29it reappears in groundwater, it
00:09:33is considered carcinogenic, it has a negative impact
00:09:37on uh
00:09:39animals, and therefore this substance's
00:09:43approval has been withdrawn."
00:10:06Regarding this question, now, what you need to know is
00:10:09that there is legislation. In Europe, as in all
00:10:13countries in the world, with maximum residue
00:10:16levels that are authorized in imported
00:10:20products, and that is precisely what guarantees that the
00:10:23residues of... plant protection products contained in
00:10:26imports have a limit and are not toxic
00:10:30for consumers and consumer health, so there is no
00:10:34risk for the European consumer to consume products that
00:10:37are imported from any country in the world because the legislation
00:10:41guarantees that the residues of these products are
00:10:45uh are not toxic for consumers.
00:10:48consommateurs
00:10:54in... scarcely the opinion of some European parliament members who
00:10:58find the very notion of residue limits cause for
00:11:01concern.
00:11:08what do they do? They have now invented residue
00:11:11limits, and these residue limits are
00:11:14authorized, you see, so it's 0.02
00:11:17microgram per kilo, but why is there such a threshold?
00:11:21since normally it's forbidden, it should be
00:11:23zero? So on one hand, Europe is proud to say it
00:11:27has the best legislation in the world, all highly
00:11:30toxic products, we ban them in Europe, but the act
00:11:33of exporting these products to third countries which return as
00:11:37food, they are also contaminating European
00:11:40citizens, so it creates a cycle of
00:11:42poison.
00:11:50one they call the cocktail effect, produced by the
00:11:54combination of...
00:12:02This is frightening when you look at this pesticide mix,
00:12:06right? So the evaluations are always, from a legal
00:12:09perspective, based on the individual substance. And
00:12:12if I now, as we found in one sample, five different
00:12:16pesticides, the question is, what does
00:12:18that mean? And the big question is, do
00:12:22the effects add up?
00:12:27when you have all these chemical substances, a part of which are also
00:12:30endocrine disruptors, it creates a cocktail effect
00:12:34that is very difficult to measure, or even impossible to measure because the number
00:12:38of combinations is infinite, and which will
00:12:41have an impact on health. So when we identify a
00:12:45risk, what should we do? Well, we must minimize it,
00:12:48reduce it, so start by removing, prohibiting potentially
00:12:52dangerous substances for health.
00:13:00Despite these warnings, Europe continues to authorize the
00:13:04export of pesticides deemed toxic at home to
00:13:07Africa, the Americas and Asia.
00:13:10It's a situation that allows manufacturers to shirk
00:13:13responsibility.
00:13:17Three quarters of these products are exported to markets that
00:13:20have very strict regulations: the
00:13:23United States, Japan, Australia, even
00:13:26Brazil. These are regulatory systems different from the European
00:13:30Union, but they are nonetheless very
00:13:33strict. There are no good or bad systems, they simply
00:13:37have different
00:13:38approaches.
00:13:41Back to Seara in northeastern Brazil, the fruit industry
00:13:45set up shop in the municipality of Limiero Donorte in the
00:13:49early 2000s. Banana fields were quick to spring up around
00:13:52villages such as Tome, home to... 1,500
00:13:55residents,
00:13:59but the forced march of economic development has come a high cost
00:14:03to the local populus, which is perilously subjected to aerial
00:14:06pesticide spraying. In 2008, Zay
00:14:10Maria, a long time resident, decided to fight against the illegal spraying.
00:14:44what's ahead, he wants to know if he can take his profit and
00:14:47leave.
00:15:01the planes cannot spray within 200
00:15:04meters of the community, but that one flew over the
00:15:07community and people thought it was beautiful, when the
00:15:11plane passed, there was that little white cloud, then
00:15:15people would go outside to see the plane spraying, I myself had
00:15:18150 chickens in my yard, in one
00:15:21day 80 chickens died when the plane finished passing the
00:15:25chickens started to die and then Ze Maria
00:15:29said: but in 10 years maybe I won't be alive,
00:15:32but in 10 years you will see people getting sick with
00:15:35cancer, people... children being born with malformations,
00:15:38you will see the number of
00:15:42terrible diseases that will happen, because
00:15:45even male impotence, pesticides
00:15:48cause,
00:15:51right?
00:15:55he was shot on the side of road, his killer was
00:15:58arrested, but the person assumed to have.