What are the harmful effects of herbicides on the human body?
What harm do herbicides do to humans? How do herbicides harm the human body? We ask knowledgeable readers to help explain. Generally, herbicides refer to chemicals that can kill weeds completely or selectively. There are many different kinds of herbicides on the market today, and with the large-scale use of herbicides, crops develop phytotoxicity...
What harm do herbicides do to humans? How do herbicides harm the human body? We ask knowledgeable readers to help explain.Generally, herbicides refer to chemicals that can kill weeds completely or selectively. There are many different kinds of herbicides on the market today, and with the large-scale use of herbicides, the causes of phytotoxicity in crops are many and varied; some can be avoided, while others are difficult to avoid. According to reports from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, more than 1 million people worldwide suffer herbicide poisoning each year, of whom 100,000 die. This shows how great the harm of herbicides is.
It has been reported that in the United States, the number of cancer patients linked to chemical herbicides accounts for about 20% of the country's total number of cancer patients. Carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic: the International Agency for Research on Cancer has confirmed through animal experiments that widely used herbicides have obvious carcinogenicity.
The harm of herbicides works through the continuous accumulation of chemical herbicides in the human body. Although in a short period they will not cause obvious acute poisoning symptoms in the human body, they can produce chronic harm. Therefore, readers should take necessary protective measures when applying herbicides, to prevent inhaling or coming into contact with them, which would lead to herbicide residues in the human body.