counterfeit and contraband pesticides are flooding the world

  Pesticides,” he said that day last October.  Hidden beneath a few sacks of grain were 12,000 pounds of the pesticide emamectin benzoate.  With a street value of more than $2 million the illegal pesticides, produced in China and then smuggled across the Paraguay border, were twice as powerful as what’s allowed in Brazil….Adulterated in labs and garages, hustled like narcotics, co-opted by gangs and mafias, counterfeit and contraband pesticides are flooding developed and developing countries alike, with environmental and social consequences that are “far from trivial,” the U.N. Environment Program reported last year.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-agricultural-giant-brazil-a-new-and-growing-hazard-the-illegal-trade-in-pesticides/2020/02/09/2c0b2f2e-30b3-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html