Cadmium screening, which the French are strongly contaminated when eating cereals or bread due to the use of phosphate fertilizers in agriculture, will be reimbursed “in the autumn of city medicine”, announced on Tuesday, June 11, the minister responsible for health.
On June 5, the Regional Unions of Liberal Health Professionals (URP) denounced “an explosion in the contamination of young children” in France to this toxic “omnipresent in our environment” due to the propagation of phosphate fertilizers, which accumulates in the body and exposes a higher risk of cardiovascular and cancer pathologies in particular.
The defined refund framework this year
These professionals have “recovered the interest of a detection” of this substance aimed at patients at risk, recalled Yannick Neuder, interviewed in the National Assembly by environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau.
“This exam is reimbursed in the hospital and will be in autumn in city medicine,” he said.
According to the Ministry, “the work on the reimbursement of cadmium detection tests for people at risk, and the framework for this refund is underway with the aim of having defined” this perimeter at the end of 2025.
Regarding the recommendation issued in 2021 by the National Agency for Health Safety, Food, Environment (ANSE) so that it does not exceed 20 mg of cadmium per kg of phosphate fertilizers, Yannick Neuder said it will be “particularly vigilant about the decree that the Ministry of Agriculture must take this subject, as other countries did, as well as the finias, Pole.
Unprecedented, the Public Health Survey of Albane, whose launch was announced on Tuesday, must analyze the health of the French population (food, physical activity …) and in particular its exposure to substances such as pesticides, bisphenols, phthalates and cadmium.
Source: BFM TV
