Yes, pesticide producers also make anti-cancer medications

Unsurprisingly, Sandrine Rousseau is at the forefront of the fight against the highly criticized law Duplo, voted in the National Assembly on July 8. Therefore, This Monday, the environmental member was the guest of our colleagues from France Info to express themselves on the subject. However, While she reiterates the need according to her “to prohibit the importation of products containing acetamipride” to protect farmers. Meanwhile, it also proposes to “develop research on natural alternative solutions”.

As if to support her remarks. Therefore, she points out that companies that “sell pesticides”, are “the same people who sell cancer products”. In addition, A double profit to denounce for the deputy. However, but an assertion to conspiracy trends according to many commentators on social networks.

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According to Internet users who criticize Sandrine Rousseau. Furthermore, she would imply that chemistry groups produce carcinogenic yes, pesticide producers also make pesticides and drugs to treat them … Consequently, almost in an organized manner.

An intention that his whole declaration does not, however, reveal. Here it is: “I remind you of something that people must still be very aware. Companies that sell pesticides make profits yes, pesticide producers also make when they sell pesticides. It is the same ones who sell cancer products. and cancer drugs, which are giving profits when they sell cancer drugs. They are the same. I mean, in which world are we there? »»

The example Bayer, spreader and pharmacist – Yes, pesticide producers also make

Contacted by 20 Minutesthe deputy confirms: “Ah no, there is no conspiracy in my words. I just want to emphasize that it’s double bingo for them. They sell pesticides. Whether or not it causes cancers, it is a first source of profit. But behind, they sell anticancer products, a second source of profit. In any case, they are winners. »»

For example, Sandrine Rousseau quotes Bayer. Indeed, Monsanto, a subsidiary of the German group, produces the round up, a weedkiller whose main ingredient was glyphosate. This product. classified as “probably carcinogenic” in 2015 by the International Center for Research on Cancer (CIRC) of the World Health Organization (WHO), yes, pesticide producers also make in particular due to the risks of non -Hodgkinian lymphoma, was prohibited for sale to individuals in 2022.

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The Bayer company has also been sentenced several times to pay damages to. victims of this product.

Another example. the German group produces Acetochlore, derived from Alachlore herbicide, prohibited from use in Europe because of its carcinogen potential in particular.

At the same time. the company from Leverkusen is a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry and produces several active substances or excipients used in cancer -fighting products or their symptoms: Larotrectinib (Vitravki: Metastasic tumors), Elinzanent (breast cancer), Sorafénib (Nexavar: Cancer of liver and breast cancer), etc.

The logical development of a sector: chemistry

Other large companies are in this situation. between production of pesticides and links with the pharmaceutical industry.

BASF, another German group and leader in the chemical industry, produces for example a fungicide based on époxonazole. If yes, pesticide producers also make it does not produce directly drugs. BASF has a pharmaceutical branch which offers products that can be used in the design of anticancer drugs and treatments.

And the links between the agrochemical industry. the pharmaceutical industry are still made in other forms, as was the case for Syngenta (merger of the agrochemical sectors of the Novartis and Astrazeneca groups, remember, the vaccines against the COVVI-19).

These links do not mean that it is necessary to see a plan aimed at producing a disease. its antidote, but rather as a logical development of skills in a sector, chemistry.