SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN MEXICO AS TOOLS TO REDUCE THE EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

The damages of the pesticides in the flora, fauna, and human being have been worrying for decades when science affirmed that agricultural chemical products are bioaccumulative in the food chains and these can chronically affect all living beings. Today in Mexico, have been established different regulations that keep pesticide concentrations in the environment below the levels at which they can harm organisms, however, it is necessary the structuration of these regulations under the concepts of sustainability and environmental ethics. The present research had the goal of study how work ethics and sustainability to reduce the effect of pesticides on the health and the environment.