176. Pesticides in our food | Alvaro Vargas – You learn to eat with Alvaro Vargas

You’ll learn to eat with the Alvaro Vargas podcast sponsored by vegetal dotcom, just the supplements you need, welcome and welcome, and many, many, many thanks for being there, as always, what I’m going to talk about with you today because of a very controversial topic. Know that there will be people who listen to this episode and will not be able to convince you because you are so obsessed with the pesticide issue. I’m going to talk about pesticides in food, which I told you a little about in the previous episode. , but today we’re going to look at it a little more scientifically, focusing on this specific topic, and before you start, protect yourself as the cold weather arrives, protect yourself from these weather changes because. with my own goths, more prebiotics, more vitamin c, aging, vital protection, you already know about my line of supplements where you can find them at their best. I’ll leave you a direct link in the description, but you have to protect yourself this winter that’s coming, let’s get to the topic, which we’ll start with, as always, with the basics, what are pesticides. These are chemicals, but they can also be biological, which are used to control pests that usually attack crops within them, we find services if you feel, and fungicides, although throughout the episode I will talk about pesticides, I also have in I mean all the chemicals that are used, first of all, as I told you, in crops and vegetables. , fruits, cereals, well all these products that are used in agriculture are also used in livestock and so on, but let’s focus on crops, we can include, as you say, chemical fertilizers, growth regulators, other pest control methods . Since I have told you everything that is used in Indian agriculture to make the crops yield, the first thing we have to say is that there is a very very important regulation. It’s important, I’m going to focus, obviously, just obviously, it’s just me doing this. don’t want to repeat so many hostels, but I’m going to focus on the European Union, which in the end I know, and not on the legislation, which I know is the legislation of the European Union, and many of you are listening to me from Latin America, that’s a big kiss and a huge hug for being there and listening to me, but of course I haven’t studied the legislation of all countries, I’m more focused, more specialized, obviously in the European Union, so throughout the episode I’ll be talking about Legislation relevant to this part of the region. Globally, the European Union regulations are very, very strict and have set safe limits for human consumption of various foods. Controls have also been established on animal feed to ensure that it does not pose a risk to animals. General animal health is the responsibility of the European Food Safety Authority, EPSA, which you’ve heard about many times. For example, my supplements are also regulated by EFSA, on the one hand. In order for pesticides to be approved before use, they undergo extensive safety studies, assessing their toxicity, long-term effects, both acute and chronic, that is, both acute, which can happen as soon as you consume them. food products with pesticides, and in the long term it is also They conduct both laboratory and field studies to give you an idea. It can take three to four years from the time a company introduces a new pesticide until it is approved for use. . Imagine three or four years of EPSA research to see that this pesticide is safe for human consumption, added to that are all the previous years of the company’s development of this new pesticide, which is usually an average of ten twelve years. we estimate ourselves fifteen to sixteen years from the time a company begins developing a pesticide until it is approved or rejected, your imagination. The long way that EPSA is following also sets some maximum levels for pesticide residues, that is, the residues that are left behind. pesticides in food and they can end up in our body what we call lm and these are the limits, the maximum residue levels are the limits that will not cause any problems to our health.