Inteligência territorial no monitoramento da entrada de agrotóxicos ilegais no Brasil.

Abstract

Agriculture is an activity developed for thousands of years, with the main objective of producing and distributing food for population supply. With innovations in agriculture, pesticides are used in plantations to control pests and diseases that are conducive to a decrease in plantation productivity. Such products used incorrectly, whether illegal or smuggled pesticides, can cause serious harm to human health. The objectives of this work were to analyze the limits of territorial intelligence in monitoring the entry of illegal pesticides in Brazil; gathering and analyzing information on the use of illegal pesticides and relating it to environmental, criminalistic, legislative and public health issues and finally relating data on the reclassification and toxicological reassessment of pesticides. The methodology used was the literature review. All pesticides need to undergo analysis and inspection so that they can be marketed, but in Brazil there is smuggling and counterfeiting of pesticides and this is gradually increasing in the country. The entry of these products into Brazil takes place across borders without permission from the Brazilian government in a way that inspection does not detect. One of the most used borders is that of Paraguay-Brazil, where smugglers use several routes, for example, air, land or river. Several routes are used until it reaches the final destination for the farmer to buy in an easy and cheaper way than the Brazilian pesticide market. Currently, some articles have been published in which illegal pesticides are among the most smuggled products across borders, the active ingredients most illegally used in smuggled or counterfeit pesticides are Carbofuran and Aldicarb, which are related to the high incidence of human intoxication and animal poisoning. As illegal products do not pass National Health Surveillance Agency evaluation, there is no way to guarantee the safety of the products, as toxicological analysis is not carried out for humans. And through the toxicological reclassification data, it is possible to observe the label and the leaflet of the pesticides, which present pictograms, warning words and danger phrases. The use of illegal pesticides brings with it the lack of reliable information, which can lead to contamination of soils, surface and underground waters and food, causing a negative effect on terrestrial and aquatic organisms, in addition to intoxicating human beings.