“The Duplomb law is an outdated law, ignorant of technical developments, with colossal financial and human costs” | EUROtoday

HASfter a petition towards the Duplomb legislation which had collected greater than 2 million signatures in the summertime of 2025, the National Assembly reopened, on February 11, a debate on this textual content promulgated on August 11, 2025. The legislation established the return of acetamiprid, an insecticide harmful for well being and the surroundings, however this provision was censored by the Constitutional Council. This doesn’t discourage Senator Laurent Duplomb (Les Républicains, Haute-Loire), who tabled a brand new invoice on February 2 to reintroduce this pesticide banned in France since 2020.

As issues presently stand, the Duplomb legislation retains alarming provisions. It facilitates the set up of intensive livestock farming and basins for irrigation. It prevents a pesticide from being banned, no matter its toxicity, if no various exists. Finally, returning to the prohibitions of the Labbé legal guidelines [2017] and EGalim [2018]it permits pesticide sellers to even be advisors to farmers, on the threat of extreme gross sales. These provisions, which some would even prefer to develop in a future “Duplomb 2” legislation, are subsequently harmful – and above all very pricey.

Pesticides have, actually, an infinite price by way of human well being. The Agrican research, which follows 180,000 French farmers, reveals that these merchandise improve the chance of most cancers: farmers report extra lymphomas than the common (+ 50%) – a most cancers much less frequent amongst shoppers of natural merchandise (from − 20% to − 76% relying on the research). They additionally endure extra usually from Alzheimer’s illness (+13% at age 50), a pattern discovered amongst these dwelling close to farms.

By avoiding the overconsumption of pesticides, sustaining the separation between recommendation and the sale of those merchandise would restrict these well being risks. We all endure from dangerous contamination by way of our meals: if life expectancy will increase, our life expectancy in good well being plateaus, in accordance with INSEE. Industry additionally contributes, however the Duplomb legislation imposes poisonous pesticides on us for lack of alternate options. Between the constraints of the top of the month and people of the top of the world, let’s take into consideration our finish of life.

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