Recently, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of the Ministry of Environment of Mexico (SEMARNAT) announced that Mexico will phase out and ban glyphosate-based herbicides in 2024 to protect human health and the ecological environment.

“Because there is already scientific evidence that the toxicity of glyphosate will have an impact on human health and the environment, SEMARNAT has taken important steps to gradually reduce the use of this chemical and reach the goal of total ban in 2024.”

The director of SEMARNAT, Dr. Adelita San Vicente Tello, announced this after participating in a discussion on why Mexico joined the ban on glyphosate.

San Vicente Tello explained that the pesticide problem has triggered a long-term struggle. Now, Victor M. Toledo, who controls SEMARNAT, is taking decisive steps to achieve the country’s agricultural food system towards "safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly" Transformation, the most important part of which is the use of alternative methods to gradually reduce the use of glyphosate.

She recalled that SEMARNAT had taken certain actions before. As in November last year, based on the precautionary principle of preventing environmental risks, SEMARNAT stopped importing 1,000 tons of glyphosate, and establish the Health, Food, Environment and Competitiveness Committee (GISAMAC) in 2019, the purpose of which is to establish a national perspective on some major health and environmental issues. The department has recently fully supported the policy adopted by the committee to give urgent attention to environmental issues.

San Vicente Tello said she is working with the National Science and Technology Commission to analyze alternative methods of glyphosate herbicides used in large-scale agricultural production because farmers and aboriginal people have many weed management experiences that have been applied for thousands of years..

In addition, the government is conducting educational activities through various media, such as in the form of infographics and videos, which will be translated into multiple languages, which will contain independent scientific evidence on the environmental and health effects of glyphosate herbicides, The purpose is to remind the public of the risks of using glyphosate herbicides.

Finally, San Vicente Tello reiterated that in the face of this problem, each of us must take actions because "human health and environmental safety are more important than output."

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