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Report an incident

If you have witnessed an illegal contamination incident or poisoning event share it here.

Report an incident. Share your story.

UnPoison is collecting a database of incidents (including any type of application, be it agricultural, muncipal, commercial, residential etc.) to help build the case against the current state of agrochemical use in South Africa . Agrochemicals include pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and nematicides.

Your story will help us do that. To protect your identity no personal information will be shared publicly on the website. We will only post Question 4 where you decsribe what happened and where.

Name *

First

Last

Email *

Contact number *

Describe the incident or misuse. Your long answer filled in here will appear on our website timeline while questions that follow will remain private.

Please share your story. Include where this takes place, what crop or space is being sprayed, how often, over which period of time, what health impacts have been experienced, or what environmental impacts have been caused.

Where did/ does this happen? *

Place: The name of the farm or estate or park etc. + town + province

How is it being applied? *

Is it being sprayed by hand? By centrifugal tractor application? By plane? etc.

Which chemical is being sprayed?

Do you know which chemical is being used?

What is it being applied to? *

Please describe what the chemical was being applied to: crop; lawn; roadside etc.

When did/ does the incident occur? *

Please submit a date and time eg. 01 Jan 21, 17:00, OR a period of time, eg. every day for the month of October; Or once a week from August to November etc.

What were the weather conditions *

Please subit a detailed report including wind and rain or upcoming rain forecast.

Do you have any footage of the incident? Please email to unpoisonsa@gmail.com *

Photographs of the incident including the identity of the spray operator, the pesticide label, the company responsible for spraying.

Is the chemical being legally applied? Or is the application violating application guidelines? *

What health impacts have you or others experienced? *

What environmental impacts have occured as a result? *

Would you like to remain anonymous? *

Yes
No

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