HENT: false pesticides can cause cancer and infertility

Counterfeit pesticides can have serious adverse health effects in human beings, they may contain dangerous and toxic pollutions and uncontrolled by-products that have carcinogenic or gametes damaging effect – the National Board Against Counterfeiting (HENT) announced on Tuesday, on the basis of the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) latest report.

The communication highlights: the distribution of counterfeit pesticides causes an approximately 1.3 billion euros direct loss in revenue in the European Union annually, which represents almost 14 percent of the internal market turnover. In Hungary, the fake pesticides cause a loss of 7 billion HUF a year, which represents almost 17 percent of the entire turnover and 1.7 percent of the fake products registered in the EU. (MTI)