New study confirms the presence of residues of around twenty phytosanitary products in the air of Beaujolais. The legal distance of five meters between vines and buildings is not enough for these substances to dissipate.
“It’s a real health problem, a bomb in the making,” says Mathieu Chastagnol, member of the We want Beaujolas poppies association. Inserm report on 5,300 scientific studies concluded in 2021 that there was a presumption of a strong link between exposure and blood cancer, prostate cancer and leukemia.