Tap water contains pesticides and nitrates
Pesticides in tap water
more than 90% of waterways in France are contaminated by pesticides , pesticides which are then found in tap water, as evidenced by a urinary analysis to detect glyphosate carried out in 2019 in a person who does not eat only organic products but drinks tap water. Its results showed fairly high glyphosate contamination.
A report published mid-June 2020 by Générations Futures shows the difficulty and limits in detecting pesticides in tap water in France. For example, in Aisne, around ten pesticides are searched for, while in Bouches-du-Rhône, more than 550 different pesticides were searched for in each sample targeting pesticides, which greatly distorts the results.
That said, on the pesticides sought, the data analysis work of Générations Futures shows that 35% of the analyzes carried out in France detect pesticides. These are mainly suspected endocrine disruptors: 56.8% of pesticide residue quantifications. Pesticides with Carcinogenic, Mutagenic, Reprotoxic (CMR) properties are also very present: 38.5% of pesticide residue quantifications.
In total, more than 3/4 of the pesticides found in tap water are of the CMR or PE type.
“ Given the potential for action at low doses over the long term of endocrine disruptors, Générations Futures considers these data to be worrying because they attest to continuous exposure to low doses of these EDs through drinking water. », Explains François Veillerette – Spokesperson for the association.
Furthermore, the Metabolites , many toxic by-products from pesticides, are not researched, quite simply due to technical incapacity.
What about bottled water?
According to the responses we received from bottled water professionals and according to a 2015 study , bottled water would contain no or very few pesticides: out of 40 brands of natural mineral waters and spring waters, the 13,000 analyzes carried out show that 78% of the samples tested do not present any nano -trace of pesticides and that those which contain them have levels twice lower than the regulatory threshold and on average ten times lower than those observed on average in tap water.
“To grasp the infinitesimal scale of these traces, we estimate that they represent contents 200 times lower than the maximum threshold allowed for pesticides in food products, including organic products”, specifies the National Federation of Packaged and Bottled Waters .
Source: ma-planete.info