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Some 56,000 people have been poisoned by pesticides in Brazil in the past decade alone (Photo: jetsandzeppelins)

Mercosur trade deal will fuel 'poison pesticides' back into EU

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement, as it currently stands, will exacerbate the 'boomerang effect' of pesticides banned in the EU whose residues re-enter the bloc as food imports, a study on Tuesday (11 May) has found.

The EU exported 7,000 tonnes of pesticides, prohibited inside Europe due to environmental and health con...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

Some 56,000 people have been poisoned by pesticides in Brazil in the past decade alone (Photo: jetsandzeppelins)

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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