Alonso Urrutia and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, September 4, 2025, p. 11
With the aim of promoting a “more sustainable and safer” agriculture, day and wise Official Gazette of the Federation, Julio Berdegué, head of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) announced.
The first phase of a new strategy, prepared by the Secretariats of Agriculture, Health, Environment and Economics, includes these substances, among which the Aldicarb, an insecticide that has been used in crops such as sugar and citrus cane, which causes serious damage to direct contact health and also because it permeizes in the water that can later be consumed.
He also mentioned the carbofurán, one of the most dangerous plagucids in the world. Although in Mexico it was still legal, it is prohibited in Canada, Europe and several countries; In the United States it has very strong restrictions, he said.
The DDT, he said, is an “incredible case of Ripley.
He announced that after the four secretariats will focus on the second stage, with the aim of announcing a new list of prohibited products in the first semester of 2026. A third phase is scheduled for 2027.
– Glyphosate enters the ban? –The official was asked.
– effectively, there is a very active work of Mexican scientists and groups of producers to generate alternatives – even some that are not chemical, but agroecological – practices that prevent the use of any pesticide, glyphosate or others. The scientific community also seeks options that allow us to replace this product and others.
“Many substances that will be restricted in the short term are identified in international agreements of which Mexico is a part, such as one of Basel, another of Roterdam and another of Stockholm, in which countries we agree on what products are acceptable, under what conditions. All these molecules, the 35, are prohibited in one or more countries or regions with which Mexico has active food trade.”
