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Metam-sodium is banned until the end of January and this is bad news for Dominique Ducoin, market gardener at Petit-Mars (Loire-Atlantique). He uses this substance to prepare his soils before sowing the lamb's lettuce. "My reaction is to say 'how am I going to do it', maybe I'll go to things that are less risky"he explains.
The government made this decision after poisoning 70 people in Maine-et-Loire early October. A statement states that metam sodium is one of the substances of greatest concern to health and the environment. No more question of using it for at least three months, the time of the investigation.
"The National Health Security Agency will determine whether to ban it permanently or not", announces Didier Guillaume, Minister of Agriculture.The market gardeners in Nantes are worried, because the production of lamb's lettuce could suffer from this ban.There are alternatives, such as steam sterilization.A technique more expensive, but which could allow sow fields that could not be treated before the pesticide was banned.
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