However, I believe that the farmers
’ guiding principle should be: ‘as few pesticides as possible, just those that are essential’, and the
guiding principle of producers and distributors should be the precautionary principle, which should be the supreme principle as regards the lives and the hea
lth of consumers in every case where the introduction of new pesticides raises concerns, either because there is some ambivalence in the results of scientific research, or if there has been insufficient
...[+++]time to be able to say categorically that a given product or substance is harmless to humans and animals.