Blood tests conducted on farmers shows contamination with toxic farm chemicals

By THE NATION

 

 

TRACES OF toxic chemicals have been found in the blood of five out of every 100 farmers in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Bua Yai district, if results from tests across 132 villages are used as an indicator.
 

The Bua Yai district’s public-health office arranged blood tests yesterday after learning that local farmers had been using pesticides heavily recently. 

 

“There are many contamination cases,” the district’s public-health office chief Pongpipat Chumseeda said. 

 

Hence, he said, farmers should protect themselves by properly following instructions on the packages and wearing protective gear. 

 

“They should also get rid of packages properly after using the chemicals,” he added. 

 

 

He also advised people to wash vegetables several times, and eat detoxifying herbs such as laurel clockvine.

 

Several farmers have visited Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital since late last month, seeking treatment for exposure to farm chemicals. 

 

A 50-year-old patient from Bua Lai district had to have his fingers amputated to prevent necrotising fasciitis (a flesh-eating disease) from spreading. 

 

In another case, doctors found severe blood poisoning in a 68-year-old farmer from Chok Chai district. “I developed several health problems since I started using chemicals in my farm five years ago,” the farmer said. 

 

 

A patient displays wounds on both legs that are the result of exposure to toxic farm chemicals. 

 

The dangers posed by farm chemicals began making the headlines after the Public Health Ministry recommended a ban on some widely used farm chemicals such as paraquat in 2017. Many recent studies have suggested that these farm chemicals are a threat to the environment and people’s health. 

 

Last month, researchers from Naresuan University found high concentrations of four herbicides in soil, vegetables and even the tap water in Nong Bua Lamphu province.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30354743

 

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Can't be right....the Agriculture Dept. thinks chemicals are safe...otherwise they would have banned them!

Betagro will concur.

 

11 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

Can't be right....the Agriculture Dept. thinks chemicals are safe...otherwise they would have banned them!

Betagro will concur.

 

Actually TCCC ( Thai Central Chemical company ) are the largest supplier of agro chemicals in Thailand.  The largest single shareholder being SOJITZ Corporation, a Japanese company ( Ref. http://www.tcccthai.com/en/about/shareholder-structure ) . I doubt if their executives will have too much concern about the poor Thai farmer's sufferings.

Edited September 19, 20187 yr by Esso49

Nothing will happen while certain politicians, senior civil servants and hand selected doctors are in the pockets of the chemical companies. What other reason could be there be for not banning these deadly chemicals?

Corruption is everywhere in Thailand and the PM says he is going to fix it........phooey!

and just how much of this poison remains in the plants which becomes our food? Not just a problem for farmers. As there is no immediate cause & effect reaction from this crap, majority ignore the slow poisoning

....they should get rid of the packages properly....???

 

...nothing to do with the crops drenched in the poisons...then consumed...???

 

...oh, okay...???

 

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...utterly insane...these poisons are now found in groundwater...in products including breakfast cereals...all around the world...

 

...and even in fish....if I am not mistaken...???

 

...please do some research and don't accept mainstream nonsense....

 

....they are also linked to 40-60 % reduced sperm count in males over the past 10 years...globally....

 

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...who in their right mind would condone their continued use...???

 

 

Still No alarm bells ringing?

While I am also pro a restriction of these toxic farm chemicals the shown pictures of the skin disorder would also happen if they work without protective clothing in a laundry or paint shop.

I can imagine how most farmers apply these chemicals: no mouth cover at all, short pants and flip flops.
Then even organic or low toxic chemicals can lead to skin irritation.

"He also advised people to wash vegetables several times, and eat detoxifying herbs such as laurel clockvine."

 

And has the laurel clockvine been grown using the same chemicals?  ?

3 hours ago, Emster23 said:

and just how much of this poison remains in the plants which becomes our food? Not just a problem for farmers. As there is no immediate cause & effect reaction from this crap, majority ignore the slow poisoning

. . .  advised people to wash vegetables several times

 

Makes me thankful I'm not a vegetarian.

 

Would a public health official say this unless he was convinced the chemicals used in Thai agriculture constituted a very real health hazard to consumers?  

 

I've seen this advice, also, in school text books brought home by my children. Yet how many families actually bother to triple-wash vegetables they cook at at home - and how many restaurants and street and market food vendors bother to wash them at all?  

 

Makes me thankful I'm not a vegetarian.

 

The unpalatable truth is that we are all being slowly poisoned while the government plays for time in the hope of harvesting farmers' votes on election day.

 

And they wonder why nobody trusts politicians!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 19, 20187 yr by Krataiboy

These toxic farm chemical manufacturers also are similar to the 'big pharma' mafia. Some manufacturing countries which are powerful, even 'twist the arms' of developing countries to purchase these chemicals. For example... 

there is a controversy about the herbicide Glyphosate.

then about the 'labels' that appear on fruits.

Who manufacture these? And, if banned in the country of manufacture, why export it to other countries?

I wonder, if there is 100% chemical free food available anywhere on this planet! Be they be vegetables, fruit, meat or fish.

Poisoning the vegetables and fruit we eat, poisoning the air we breathe, polluting the rivers and oceans that supply the fish we eat... is there no end to our one way ticket to the end of mankind?

The EU banned imports of Thai sweet basil because if failed testing for banned herbicides a few years ago. They really need to wake up to the dangers.

4 minutes ago, Jaggg88 said:

The EU banned imports of Thai sweet basil because if failed testing for banned herbicides a few years ago. They really need to wake up to the dangers.

Any idea who manufacture the "banned herbicides"?

Thailand has nothing on China when it comes to pesticides.
All that imported vegetables in Makro are Chinese imports.

I'll eat local over that Chinese stuff all day.

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