Syngenta Added An Odor To Paraquat Providing Farm Communities With Proof They Are Being Exposed To The Deadly Defoliant

Farm communities are angry that the paraquat drifts off of the farm in the air and that warnings omitted inhaling the fumes

Friday, December 31, 2021 - Now that the news of farmworkers hiring paraquat lawyers to represent them has made its way through the farm communities, more and more are coming forward to hold the maker of the deadly defoliant accountable for its negligence. One farmer in Australia wrote a piece for the Sydney Herald, warning other farmers about the dangers of the chemical. He wrote, "Before you spray the next tank of Paraquat, or as you care for a loved one who was exposed to Paraquat out in the field and now suffers from Parkinson’s disease, I would like you to consider the following: (1) Paraquat is banned in over 32 countries including the European Union, Switzerland, and China, (2) Paraquat exposure mimics Parkinson’s so well in mice that it is actually used to model the disease in lab studies, (3) people exposed to Paraquat in their teens and young adult years have up to a 600% increased risk of developing Parkinson’s." One should also consider that Syngenta, the maker of the paraquat, is the defendant in hundreds of paraquat Parkinson's disease lawsuits alleging that applying or working around the chemical regularly and for many years has caused them to develop permanent, irreversible neurological difficulties. Farm families have lived with developing neurological disorders for more than a generation not knowing that their disease was coming from inhaling repetitive low doses of paraquat.

Farm owners that have purchased paraquat in the past have had ample warning about the chemical's toxicity from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which has forced farmers to become licensed to purchase and use the product. Not only is paraquat used to control weeds when applied by workers walking up and down every row of crops wearing backpack paraquat sprayers, but also applied on entire fields via aerial spraying, drenching both the fields and the workers that were forced to stay in the field to guide the planes. Paraquat is also used extensively at the end of a crop's growing cycle to dry it out before being harvested, and also to "burn down" what remains of a crop after it has been harvested. Farmworkers are angered that the paraquat warning included not drinking it but omitted the paraquat dangers from inhaling the fumes indirectly but repeatedly. Despite the EPA recently stating that they found no scientific proof to establish a link between paraquat and Parkinson's disease, farmworkers and those who live, work, and play in communities where it is sprayed know otherwise. Not only is paraquat dyed blue to prevent a person from accidentally mistaking it for a soft drink it also has an odor added to it that makes it unmistakable. This odor is said to hang over farms and neighboring communities constantly, proving that the chemical is in the air. Paraquat's unique odor is proof that a farm can not control the wind nor contain the spray to the field where it is intended to stay. Families that moved to the country to live a slower, healthier lifestyle are mad that the smell of paraquat is in the air constantly, 24-7, and that they and their children are always breathing it in.

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