Municipality of Westerveld Get maintain on the use of pesticides in the bulbs and lily cultivation around Wapserveen. Not for nature but because of the health of the inhabitants. Feary inhabitants of the village make that call. Because if you follow the GGD rules if crop protection products are sprayed, children can no longer walk around outside, says the citizen collective toxic wapserveen.
They want the municipality to maintain. The Nature Conservation Guard served a request on behalf of the residents at the municipality of Westerveld to do so within a week. Because the tulips are already on the land and the first lily balls are now going into the ground.
General practitioner Evelien van Soldt from Wapserveen runs with various general practitioners in the regional services. She is shocked by the relatively high number of cases of Parkinson’s and ALS. “Even with young people. And if you are supposing to be against the relatively low number of inhabitants that lives here, it says something. It is proven that the crop protection products are not harmful, the municipality must forbid the use. If in doubt, does not spray.”
Van Soldt receives the support of fifty general practitioners in the region, and from pediatricians, specialists and youth doctors from the GGD from the rest of the country. They have all put their signature to support the enforcement request. According to the doctors, there are now plenty of indications and studies that show that the cocktail of the means used is harmful to humans, and completely to children and babies.
“Since the organs and systems of children are still developing and their body weight is lower, they get a higher dosage of these substances.” According to the doctors, this applies even more to unborn children. “Of the known risks, they are shown to become greater when humans come into contact with multiple pesticides. The increase in risks rises due to the sum of resources and that has never been investigated by the college for the admission of crop protection products and biocides (CTGB),” the fifty doctors write to the municipality.
Rieuwert de Haan adds. “There are now so many fields that are used for floriculture so close to the village that according to the GGD rules children when spraying or just sprayed has been sprayed, not even to school, not playing in the schoolyard, not to the sports field because everything is too close. In addition, the pesticide blows. And it is already in nuisiers here in Luiers.”