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No evidence to support a link between crop protection products and Parkinson’s disease

No evidence to support a link between crop protection products and Parkinson’s disease

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Parkinson’s disease is often linked to the use of crop protection products. The Belgian news website Vilt spoke to neurologist Wim Vandenberghe of UZ Leuven in Belgium and to Professor Hans Kromhout of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who specialises in occupational hygiene and epidemiology. The conversation painted a somewhat more nuanced picture, as is evident from an article In the July/August issue of EFM, 

 

The full article is available via this link (open access)