A court docket in Bogotá sanctioned the Minister of Well being of Colombia, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, with a three-day arrest and a financial nice for disobeying a ruling from the Constitutional Courtroom that ordered the elimination from the marketplace of a pesticide that reasons neuronal harm to boys, women and teens.
The Bogotá court docket thus resolved an order for contempt issued on October 22, 2024, taking into consideration that the Ministry of Well being has no longer communicated the actions performed since then to conform to the sentence.
And likewise that the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) has no longer advanced actions to make sure that the pesticide chlorpyrifos didn’t proceed to flow into during the nationwide territory, since in 2024 circumstances of acute poisoning persisted to be reported.
The ruling of the Constitutional Courtroom, T-343/22, ordered the ICA to undertake “the vital administrative measures to right away droop the promoting of agricultural chemical compounds with the lively element chlorpyrifos.”
And inside of six months the definitive removal of the usage of this pesticide utilized in vegetation additionally needed to be ensured.
The Ministry of Well being, for its section, needed to accompany the ICA in complying with this order and get ready semiannual experiences on it.
All of this resolved a guardianship established by means of Luis Domingo Gómez on behalf of his daughter, Valeria Gómez, and all Colombian girls and boys, alleging that the US Environmental Coverage Company (EPA) regarded as this pesticide a well being chance. human as it led to severe neurological harm, basically in kids and teenagers.
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