Developing countries stockpiled pesticides

At the same time, the developing countries were struggling to cope with extensive intoxications from pesticides, lead and mercury poisoning, legacies of stockpiled obsolete pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls and other issues that had to a large extent already been taken care of in the developed countries. 

Analytical surveys need to be carried out in developing countries in order to provide detailed information about the dimensions of the stockpiles. As a general rule, the storehouses are mostly inappropriate. It is also difficult to estimate the exact quantities of the individual stockpiles. In Pakistan, for example, several hundred different pesticide formulations with 50 different active ingredients were found in the stores, mostly insecti-... 

The previous examples are no exceptions. There are similar situations in nearly all developing countries [3]. No type or chemical group of pesticides is excluded from obsolete pesticide stockpiles. Some stocks have been accumulated over a period of 50 years new products are being added to the stockpiles continuously. The key factors [4] that contribute to the accumulation of obsolete stockpiles in developing countries are these ... 

For decades, stockpiles of obsolete, expired, and banned pesticides have posed significant health risks to people in developing countries. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that... 

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