EFSA’s intentional blockade of Parkinson testing of pesticides

Dear Ms. Health Commissioner Kyriakides,

On 25-2-2022 we sent you a letter on neurotoxic effects of pesticides and urged you to oblige pesticide applicants to do chronic neurotoxicity testing of the active substances they like to place on the market. Sadly we did not receive a reply from your side. Not only by this missing reaction, but also in general we do not see any progress in protecting the public against the known chemical causes of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson, while the incidences of these diseases keep on rising rapidly (30% increase in the last 10 years). 

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