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Agriculture Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Hazardous pesticides In July 2000, sixteen healthy young farmers in Senegals Kolda region suddenly fell sick and died. All suffered the same symptoms - severe swelling of the face, limbs and abdomen, heart pains and breathing difficulties - and all were dead within a week. A team of government disease and poisoning specialists quickly located the probable cause: two pesticide powders, Granox TBC and Spinox T, which the victims had used to protect newly planted groundnut seeds against fungus and insects. Eighteen months later, in Geneva, an international panel of experts launched action aimed at alerting governments to the danger. The Interim Chemical Review Committee found Granox TBC and Spinox T to be severely hazardous and recommended that both be added to a growing list of agro-chemicals subject to international trade controls. Next year, that recommendation goes for approval to an inter- governmental body responsible for the Rotterdam Convention, a legally binding global agreement that seeks to prevent unwanted imports of dangerous chemicals, particularly in developing countries. How big is global trade in these chemicals? The Senegal case is a good example of how At present, it is difficult to say. An estimated the Rotterdam Convention is protecting people one to two million different chemical and the environment, says Bill Murray, of the preparations are on sale around the world today. Conventions FAO/UNEP secretariat. If the After the automotive sector, the ch