When Valdemar Postanovicz finished spraying his tobacco fields in remote Paraná, Brazil, he had no idea what was about to happen. Hours later, after showering, his nightmare began. “All the right side of my body was paralysed. I couldn’t feel my foot and my hand. My mouth twisted to the right,” he recalls, describing what he initially feared was a stroke. What Postanovicz experienced wasn’t a stroke but acute poisoning from Reglone – a herbicide containing diquat that’s banned on British farms but manufactured in Huddersfield, England, and legally exported to countries with weaker regulations. The UK’s Toxic Export Business … Continue reading UK Exported 8,500 Tonnes of Banned Pesticides in 2023, 98% from Syngenta