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05/11/2012
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Aldicarb, the main pesticide used illegally as domestic rodenticide (BB), was banned from the market in October. Estimates from the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) indicate that the product is responsible for almost 60% of the eight thousand cases of poisoning related to pellet in Brazil every year.
"The reasons for the ban of aldicarb in the domestic market are related to the high incidence of human poisoning and poisoning of animals due to the diversion of the said pesticide use," explains the director of Monitoring and Control of Health National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA ), Agenor Álvares. Furthermore, aldicarb has the highest acute toxicity of all active ingredients of pesticides, hitherto authorized for use in Brazil.
The only based product that aldicarb had authorization for use in the country, was the Temik 150, from Bayer S / A. It is a pesticide granules, classified as extremely toxic, which had approval for agricultural use only, as an insecticide, acaricide and nematicide, on crops of potatoes, coffee, citrus and sugar cane.
Chumbinho
The use of aldicarb as a rodenticide household in the form of popular pellet is not authorized by the Brazilian authorities. "The pellet product is an illegal and dangerous to the health of the population and the use and trade of this pesticide as a rodenticide domestic framed as a criminal and illicit activity," says Alvares.
Because it is a product clandestine, the pellet has no label with guidance on handling and safety, medical information, emergency telephone numbers, description of the active ingredient and antidotes to be used in cases of poisoning. "Without this information healthcare professionals have a harder act to save the lives of people intoxicated by the pellet," says the director of ANVISA.
Typical symptoms of poisoning chumbinho occur in less than an hour after ingestion and the main clinical signs are nausea, vomiting, sweating, drooling, blurred vision, contraction of the pupil, abdominal pain, diarrhea, tremors, tachycardia, among others .
In case of poisoning should be connected, for free, for the Dial-Poisoning: 0800-722-6001. The service is available for the entire country and has professionals specialized in guiding treatment of poisoning cases.
Ineffective as a rodenticide
Besides having high acute toxicity, the pellet is ineffective in combating domestic rodents. Normally, as the first animal that eats the poison dies immediately, the remaining mice observe and do not consume that food poisoned.
Already rodenticides legalized, fit for the purpose and registration with ANVISA, act as anticoagulants, causing slow poisoning in mice. Thus, the death of the animal is not associated with the food ingested, which causes all the mice colony ingest this kind of poison.
Cancellation
The cancellation of the registration of aldicarb based products follows the recommendations of restriction of use of this active ingredient, resulting from revaluation meeting of Toxicology, held in 2006. At the time, as well as in subsequent years, were set a series of restrictive measures for the continued use of aldicarb in Brazil, such as I-exclusion product use in various cultures, II-Restricted sale to the states of Bahia, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, exclusively for farmers and property certificates registered to use the product, III-decreasing number of dealerships over 200 channels to 34 and IV-adding bittering agent and emetic (substance that induces vomiting) in product formulation.
After the revaluation process, Bayer S / A had, in 2011, a timeline of discontinuity marketing and closing the import, distribution and use of the product. The company undertook also to make the payment of any leftover product in the possession of farmers.
In June 2012, ANVISA canceled the report of toxicological assessment of the pesticide aldicarb base. In October 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply published the deregistration of Temik 150.
With cancellations, are banned in Brazil the production, sale and use of any pesticide aldicarb-based.
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Source: ANVISA
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