Bordeaux school children sick from vineyard pesticides, say officials
Decanter.com/.- Pesticide use by winemakers is under extra scrutiny in Bordeaux after several school children were briefly hospitalised by suspected exposure to fungicide from a nearby vineyard. A junior school in Bordeaux’s Blaye region saw 23 pupils affected by nausea and headaches on the morning of 5 May, following fungicide spraying in a next-door vineyard. Some of them were taken to a local hospital and put under special observation, although symptoms faded within 24 hours and all returned to the…