The Île-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) calls for the greatest vigilance. After being alerted to the high concentration of dioxins present in eggs from domestic chicken coops located near the domestic waste incinerator in Ivry-sur-Seine, the health authority carried out a regional investigation into this contamination.
The results are final. In a press release published Wednesday, the ARS, which claims to have studied 25 domestic chicken coops, including 14 located near Paris’ three main waste incinerators, points to evidence of contamination of all soil and egg samples by the three families of persistent organic pollutants (POPs): dioxins, furans and PCBs.
“Conservative and prudential” decision
Pending the final results of this work to identify the origin of the contamination, the ARS recommends, “in a conservative and prudent manner”, “the non-consumption of eggs and animal products from uncontrolled domestic production, throughout the Island.” de -Region of France”.
On the other hand, this non-consumption does not affect eggs from the commercial sector, “which are subject to the controls provided for by regulation.”
With BFMTV, Tanguy, manager of an urban chicken coop with non-marketed eggs, assures that he does not want to change his habits and continue consuming his products. “I know what my chickens eat, I give them organic grain that comes from a farm 15 kilometers from my house, there are no chemicals,” he says.
“We have land that has not been treated since we have had it, for at least twenty years, there are no chemicals on it. I see no reason not to wear them anymore,” she hammers again.
Serious health consequences
In an appendix to this news release, ARS provides an update on these persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Among them, dioxins and furans, which are precisely “undesirable by-products of waste combustion.”
Then come PCBs, the production of which is now banned in France, which “could also be discharged by incinerators, but to a lesser extent than dioxins and furans.” Its presence in the environment “is due to ancient uses in urban areas,” according to the ARS.
The regular consumption of these POPs is a real health problem since it entails “a progressive impregnation of the organism”. In the long term, this impregnation can cause “an increased risk of cancer, fertility and pregnancy disorders, metabolic effects such as diabetes.”
There is no treatment to remove them from the body.
Source: BFM TV
