Public health France and the National Sanitary Safety Agency launch an unprecedented study on the pesticide exposure of wine residents.
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The study has not started yet, but it already worries the wine industry. To the point that Bernard Farges, the boss of the very influential interprofessional council of the wine of Bordeaux (CIVB) took his pen, in early October, to move it from the prefect of the News Aquitaine, Fabienne Buccio. The National Food, Environment and Labor Safety Agency (ANSES) and Public Health France (FPS) announced Tuesday 19 October the launch of Pestiriv, the largest exposure study to pesticides Riprians of wine farms conducted so far in France.
If viticulture has been chosen, explain to SPF, it is on the one hand that “the nesting” between dwellings and cultivated plots is stronger than for other types of crops and Another part that “Sanitary Signal Lifts reach us with wine areas with particular cases of pediatric cancer clusters close to these areas.” The study will take place in two stages: from October 2021 to February 2022, then from March to August 2022 to include a treatment period. The results are not expected before 2024.
The perspective of their publication, however, puts the boss of the CIVB. “We are not convinced that ANSES and SPF, once the work of analysis and dissemination carried out, will make the effort of pedagogy and contradiction necessary to avoid hasty conclusions, ignoring any scientific rigor”, written Bernard Farges in his letter of the $ 1 October, of which Le Monde was able to read.
“Scientific rigor”
The Bordeaux winemaker warns the prefect that his organization will not participate in the next meeting scheduled for 10 November: “We will not accompany this approach or to Gironde wine companies, nor to the mayors of the municipalities concerned. “A veiled threat that can put Peril Pestiriv, whose realization implies the cooperation of the winemakers, which will have to share with the agencies their schedule of spreading and the products they use. Contacted, the CIVB did not want to comment.
“No discussion has been opened, nor on sampling, nor on the protocol, or on the outcome dissemination policy”, reproaches Mr. Farges in his missive. “Stakeholders are informed, provide SPF. But nor nor vineyards nor NGOs have their say on the protocol. It is the guarantee of its scientific rigor.”
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