Isocycloseram  is an an emerging threat in Australia.

Imagine you’re driving downhill and the accelerator jams. You’re going faster and faster, you pump the brakes, but the brakes have also stopped working.

That is, in effect, what a relatively new insecticide called isocycloseram does to an insect’s nervous system: it jams the nerves’ off switch, so they keep firing until the insect is paralysed and dies. More technically, it targets the insect’s GABA-gated chloride channel – the tiny gate that normally lets a nerve calm down after it fires.

It won’t surprise you to learn that humans have the same GABA gate system.

Australia: first to approve, last to ban

Isocycloseram was approved in Australia in 2021, with the first product registered in 2022. It is made by Syngenta – the same manufacturer behind paraquat who is facing thousands of lawsuits around the world alleging the company knew of links to Parkinson’s disease and concealed them.

https://pesticideaction.org.au/2026/07/13/pfas-pesticides-on-our-berries/

The plan is to increase the residue on fruit, especially blueberries, 500 fold.

APVMA claims there is no risk to human health but other regulatory bodies have grave concerns.

European chemical agencies have classified it toxic to reproduction, damaging to the liver,  damaging to fertility, carcinogenic and much much more.  Feeding these forever chemicals to our children is insane.

Remember that forever chemicals CANNOT be washed off our food.  PFAS are systemic or absorbed deep into plant tissues.  Ordinary water rinses or soap cannot remove them.

PFAS are now in many of our waterways.  Why would we want more?

It’s not bad enough our air and waterways are polluted?
When I read about this forever chemicals stuff…. And to deliberately put it on blueberries!
I won’t be buying them. In past, I’ve bought to put as decor with strawberries on pavlovas.
Strawberries and blueberries do not taste like I remember when I was younger.

We grew up in a strawberry farming area, my mum even had her strawberry patch and I had to help (age 12) getting rid of weeds and picking strawberries!  I had hands down experience with strawberries…it tasted so different then. So nice.

I don’t buy strawberries anymore, and packaged blueberries, raspberries and blackberries I totally avoid.
I have my own wild blackberries growing in clumps here n there and around the base of an old orchard.

Also I don’t trust buying anything unless it’s from someone local and with no chemical sprays, or a little organic online business.
They deserve my money.
It’s an effort more than just supermarket shopping, but worth it for your good health.

I am so angry with these chemical additions! Who’s in charge? Evil?

Blueberries are my favourite summer berries.  Alas no more.  Unless I can find some certified organic growers nearby.

Parents think they are doing the right thing feeding their kids lots of fruit and vegies but thanks to our pathetic regulators all they are doing is setting their kids up for premature cancer.