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Mexico still authorizes more than 3,000 insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides for agricultural, forestry, domestic, gardening, urban, and industrial uses. Among them are at least 183 active substances classified as highly dangerous in international agreements, and 111 which are prohibited in other countries, according to government records and recent reports.
Fernando Bejarano, coordinator of the Pesticides and Alternatives Action Network in Mexico (RAPAM), speaks positively of the December 31 presidential decree to ban Glysophate in public institutions and work toward its elimination in the private sector. But he questions the governmental mechanisms in place to address the agrochemicals situation in Mexico. ....

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