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Dear Commissioner Kadis,
Every week, several new peer-reviewed scientific studies are published in scientific journals, indicating the harm that pesticides cause on human health and the environment. Parkinson's disease among the farming community, certain types of cancer, infertility, pediatric leukemia and brain cancers as well as cognitive deficits in children from rural areas are linked to pesticide use. At the same time biodiversity continues to collapse, as pollinators, beneficial insects and birds decline. The scientific evidence points consistently in one single direction: our current pesticide regulatory system is not protective enough.