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The “Pesticide Hell Switzerland” is just a fart in a glass of water
You have to be strong now. Because our agricultural journalist disproves your prejudices about the “pesticide hell Switzerland”: the plant protection products chlorothalonil and glyphosate are less harmful to health than a glass of whiskey or a serving of strawberries.
«There is not a single water intake in the whole of the canton of Bern in which one should speak of a serious health risk!» The Bernese government president Christoph Ammann explains this categorically.
“With us you can safely drink the water from every tap in every community,” explains Alda Breitenmoser, head of the Office for Consumer Protection in the canton of Aargau, whose groundwater is most polluted: “The headlines from the pesticide hell are pure hysteria! »
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