Health. A Text to Reduce Exposure to Cadmium Under Discussion in the Assembly
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The bill, approved by 144 votes to 22, provides for a rapid path to reduce, in phosphate fertilizers, this toxic heavy metal, which accumulates in agricultural soils.
Nearly one in two Frenchmen is exposed to a dangerous level of cadmium. A bill discussed this week aims to accelerate the reduction of this poison in our fields. Cadmium is a heavy metal that is naturally found in the soil. But our agriculture adds it via phosphate fertilizers. As a result, the diet becomes the [...] Read more The invisible poison that contaminates our plates soon in the Assembly viewfinder appeared first on Le Singulier.
Children and adults in France are overexposed to cadmium. In question, the state's laissez-faire which allows higher thresholds than elsewhere in Europe. A text proposes to reduce the cadmium content by 2027 but the RN opposes it.
At the initiative of the MPs Benoît Biteau (Les Éconlogistes) and Clementine Autain (L-After), a proposal for an environmental law aimed at reducing cadmium levels in food will be debated in plenary from Tuesday 2 June in the National Assembly.
The National Assembly is considering this Tuesday, June 2nd a bill to reduce the presence of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, in agricultural fertilizers by 2027. Adopted in committee on May 27th, the text of Benoît...
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vosgesmatin.frA bill proposes to lower the maximum permissible thresholds of this heavy carcinogen metal in fertilizers to 20 mg per kilo of fertilizer in 2030, compared to 90 mg currently. The government wants to go slower.
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