Scores will be reimbursed in city medicine in the fall – Liberation

After the health alert, the response of the political authorities. The Minister of Health announced this Tuesday, June 10, the possibility of being tested for free from « Fall » For the presence of cadmium in the body. This recognized carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic metal for reproduction, would be very present in our diet due to the use of phosphate fertilizers in agriculture. « This screening is reimbursed in the hospital and it will be in the fall in city medicine »said Yannick Neuder.

On June 5, regional unions of liberal health professionals (URPS) had denounced « An explosion of contamination of young children » in France to this toxic metal, « Omnipresent in our environment »which accumulates in the body and exposes to an increased risk of cardiovascular pathologies and cancer in particular.

These professionals have « Return the interest of a screening » of this substance targeting patients at risk, recalled Yannick Neuder, interviewed in the National Assembly by the Sandrine Rousseau environmentalist. According to the ministry, « The work on the reimbursement of cadmium screening tests for people at risk, and the framework of this reimbursement, is underway with the objective of having defined » This perimeter by the end of 2025.

As for the recommendation issued in 2021 by the National Health Security, Food, Environment Agency (ANSES) not to exceed 20 mg of cadmium per kg of phosphate fertilizers, Yannick Neuder said it will be « Particularly vigilant about the decree that the Ministry of Agriculture must take on this subject, as did other countries, such as Finland, Poland or Romania ».

A public health survey – called « Albane » – Unprecedented was announced on Tuesday by health agencies. It must scrutinize the health of the French population (food, physical activity, etc.) and in particular its exposure to substances such as pesticides, bisphenols, phthalates and cadmium.

In addition, the bill to establish a national cancer register to improve the monitoring of this disease, adopted in April 2023 in the Senate, was registered on the agenda of the National Assembly on June 23, noted Yannick Neuder. The existing departmental registers cover only 21 to 24 % of the French population.

June 3, Aurélien Rousseauformer Minister of Health who has become a deputy, had asked Yannick Neuder to « To make an end to the register project » And revealed to have cancer itself, calling on the government not to cut research budgets on this disease and to support prevention.

The president of the Yaël Braun-Pivet assembly, who revealed in January that she had been diagnosed three years ago from breast cancer, had enjoined the executive to grasp the text « On the agenda of the government » For « Go fast ».