The Minister of Ecological Transition announced Wednesday a decline in chlordecone’s limit values in meat and fish-based foods.
A decree will be signed next week to lower the acceptable limit values for Chlordecone, a carcinogenic insecticide long used in Guadeloupe and Martinique, „in meat and fish-based foods,“ Minister of Ecological Transformation François de Rugy announced .
An insecticide that persists for 600 years in soils . Used until 1993 in the Caribbean by banana producers, chlordecone, a carcinogen and endocrine disruptor, is still present in soils where it can persist for about 600 years and can be found in particular in certain foods of plant or animal origin and than in some water catchments.
For „a high level of health protection“. This decree „will ensure a high level of health protection for consumers,“ said Wednesday the minister, responding to the MP Laurence Vanceunebrock-Mialon (LREM), during a hearing before the Overseas Delegation of the National Assembly .
Following the appeal of a Guadeloupe association . An association Guadeloupe had filed an appeal in late June 2018 before the Paris Administrative Court to request the repeal of a decree of 2008 setting limits authorized residues (MRLs) of chlordecone in food products, too high, according to it. „For fruits and vegetables, there are already very clear categories of vegetables that fix chlordecone, and are therefore unfit for consumption,“ on contaminated land, said the minister.
