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   « Les deux seuils ­– 5 mg par kilo de poids corporel et 50 mg par litre d’eau de boisson – semblent animé d’une  vie sociale propre.  Les données récentes sur l’innocuité  du nitrate chez l’homme et l’animal d’expérience n’y changent rien.

Pourquoi ?  Les experts  constituant les comités sont à l’évidence parfaitement informés. Et ils ne conseillent pas de supprimer la dose journalière admissible et le seuil de potabilité de 50 mg qui en  découle, parce  qu’ils ne peuvent le faire. Imaginons que,  demain, ils annoncent  que <l’eau est potable quelle  que soit la concentration des nitrates qu’elle  contient> et encore qu’ < une feuille de laitue de 25g contient autant de nitrate qu’un litre d’eau prétendument dangereuse>.

    Les réactions des mouvements écologistes, en France mais surtout en Europe du Nord,      seraient d’une violence politique décisive. Les engrais, dont le principal principe actif est justement  les nitrates, sont leur cheval de bataille juste après le danger nucléaire. Et  la population y est grandement sensibilisée.

     Et il y aurait aussi un problème de cohérence : comment annoncer qu’il y a  eu  il y a trente-cinq ans erreur, parfaitement  compréhensible au demeurant compte tenu des connaissances à l’époque, que cette erreur fut répercutée en chaîne par des comités, par des instances européennes, par les instances nationales, par les tribunaux, par les médias.

     Il y aurait aussi un problème juridique insoluble.  Comment annuler les directives, les décrets, les circulaires tant européens que français ?  Et qu’en serait-il des jugements ?  Faudrait -il faire  rembourser les subventions, les indemnités ?

     Les scientifiques  font partie de la société, et en tant qu’experts des institutions. Leur dilemme est simple ; soit par amour de la vérité scientifique, répandre une information scandaleuse car à contre-courant des  convictions de beaucoup, soit  confirmer discrètement une fiction tout à fait inoffensive, car somme toute il n’est pas nécessaire pour la santé publique que l’on boive de l’eau nitratée.

      Donc il faut persévérer dans l’être et continuer à faire comme si l’eau contenant plus de 50 mg par litre était à peine potable, et celle à  plus de 100 mg par litre pas potable du tout.  Même si le contraire est scientifiquement démontré.

     Mais, puisque tout est ainsi pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles, pourquoi en parler ?  Car le dossier des nitrates est exemplaire de ce que la prétention de la science à dire le vrai universel est de plus  en plus contestée, entre autres à cause de l’évidente symbiose du  scientifique et du politique et de ce qu’un fait social puisse perdurer au-delà de ses causes » [Mariam APFELBAUM]

06 04 2005

Directive nitrate :   

EU allows for derogation by the Netherlands from Annex III.2 of the Nitrates Directive

[DOC .pdf] Derogation memorandum - Derogation from the Nitrates Directive in ...

L'Europe accorde une dérogation à la règle communautaire aux Pays-Bas et sauve 50 % de l'élevage intensif

Les Pays Bas avait introduit un recours contre la directive nitrate en démontrant que celle-ci  ne prenait pas suffisamment en compte les conditions pédoclimatiques  locales.

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« Sur le fond, il ne faudrait pas longtemps aujourd’hui pour que soit tranchées officiellement et sur la base d’arguments scientifiques irréfutables différentes questions : 

-          innocuité totale des nitrates, sinon interdiction de la production et de la vente libre des légumes, ce qui entraînerait une grave erreur de politique sanitaire, (la promotion du dernier livre des Dr L’hirondel peut être renforcée !)

-          impact nul des nitrates sur l’eutrophisation des eaux douces et marines aux concentrations courantes observées dans les écosystèmes européens (« masses d’eau » de la loi cadre ?)

Par conséquent nous ne sommes pas dans l’inexactitude ou la nuance, mais bien dans l’erreur profonde, grave et irrémédiable. Ce qui est proprement sidérant, c’est  l’attitude constante de crispation des autorités françaises et européennes et leur refus sous différents prétextes, tous plus futiles les uns que les autres, d’aborder le réexamen sur le fond de cette question. Que cette erreur soit coûteuse, inutilement contraignante et qu’elle participe à une formidable diversion collective, ne semble guère gêner nos technocrates, qui font plus dans la pseudo analyse psychologique que dans la juste appréciation des politiques publiques.

Même la notion d' « intérêt pour la sensibilisation du monde agricole aux problèmes environnementaux » qui reste le dernier argument parfois avancé, pour maintenir le statut quo, n’est pas soutenable : comment « sensibiliser  juste » sur un faux problème avéré, qui génère en outre des contraintes et des dépenses publiques et privées, aussi lourdes qu’injustifiées. Cette fumeuse « sensibilisation » risque fort de se retourner contre ses propagandistes, lorsque la vérité sera comprise du plus grand nombre ! Et la synthèse sur la chimie de l’environnement ne devrait pas tarder à être comprise... »

Propos recueillis de Christian BUSON de l'Institut de l'Environnement

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