Prosecutors v. Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency Reference : No description Complaint date : October 5, 2023 Status : Not judged Place of jurisdiction : Brazil, Sao Paulo Plaintiffs types : Prosecutor Plaintiffs names : No description Defendants : Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) Lawyers for Health and Environmental Justice : No description Case nature : Administrative Type(s), Product(s), Active substance(s) : Atrazine, Herbicide Requests : That the Court enjoins the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency to prohibit phytopharmaceutical products containing atrazine. Name of the Court : No description Jurisdiction level : No description Summary : On October 5, 2023, a group of prosecutors applied to a Brazilian court to order the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA), the body responsible for pesticide approval in Brazil, to ban all plant protection products containing atrazine, a herbicide used mainly on soybean, sugarcane and corn plantations. Atrazine has been banned in the European Union since 2004, and in Switzerland, home of Syngenta, which produces the substance, since 2012. Despite these bans, Syngenta continues to produce and distribute atrazine-based products in many states. In Brazil, atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides. Exposure to atrazine has been associated with several types of pathology, the severity of which increases with the duration of exposure: in the short term, symptoms of atrazine exposure may include palpitations, vomiting or dizziness. In the long term, atrazine has been recognized as a carcinogen and an endocrine disruptor. Scientific references : No scientifice reference for this case. Related links : Press article, marketscreener (5 oct 2023) Press article, bnn (4 oct 2023) Press article, Finance.yahoo (5 oct 2023)