9 December 2024
The public debate on the safety of pesticides is moving from the laboratory to the courtroom. The NRC wrote an article on the cases so far.
According to Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Roel Vermeulen of Utrecht University, it has not yet been conclusively proven that local residents face health risks at farms, but there are signs. ‘Links between pesticides and Parkinson's disease have been demonstrated,’ he says. But causal links are hard to find because someone with the disease may have been exposed to the toxins 40 years back. *
*article in Dutch
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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