- Collectif Info Médoc Pesticides et Alerte aux Toxiques!, Ask to suspend the spreading of "synthetic pesticides" during the Covid-19 epidemic "under the precautionary principle".
- The two associations invoke the call launched by a group of doctors and researchers (Air-Santé-Climat) asking to "drastically limit agricultural spreading in order to do everything possible to limit the spread of the virus".
- The prefect of Gironde explained that there was a priori no reason to suspend the spreading and that "nothing allowed today" to confirm the words of the collective of doctors.
Collectif Info Médoc Pesticides et Alerte aux Toxiques!, Two antipesticide associations, asked the Gironde prefecture to suspend the spreading of "synthetic pesticides", especially in the vineyard, during the Covid-19 epidemic "under the principle of precaution ”.
While the Gironde is the main French wine department in area with around 120,000 hectares of vineyard, the associations ask to take into account "the gravity of the current health situation" and "that by virtue of the precautionary principle, that sprays of synthetic pesticides are suspended because they are considered non-essential and aggravating the respiratory distress of people with Covid-19 disease ”.
In a press release dated Friday but sent Monday, the two associations notably invoke an appeal launched by a group of doctors and researchers (Air-Santé-Climat) asking the State to "drastically limit agricultural spreading in order to put everything in works to limit the spread of the virus ”.
"I have to know how to keep reason"
Asked about the subject of spreading during a press audioconference devoted to the Covid-19 epidemic, the prefect of Gironde Fabienne Buccio explained that there was a priori no reason to suspend them at this stage, as long as they were done within the regulatory framework.
"These requests are based on the opinions of a group of doctors in Italy that the spreading would promote the spread of Covid-19, until proven otherwise this is not the case, hammered Fabienne Buccio on Monday. Covid-19 is not transmitted to humans, not through the air. And if it were transmitted in the air it would be really tiny. Today, there is nothing to say that ”. And she prefers to add: "I have to know how to keep reason. The situation is sufficiently anxiety-provoking for us to make the situation even more difficult. The spreading permits issued will remain so. "
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