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June 14, 2023
There is a dangerous gap in the safety assessment of pesticides. Neurotoxicity is not adequately investigated and this could contribute to damage to the brain development of children and the rapid dev...
May 31, 2023
Recently the European Commission has renewed the approval for some very toxic pesticides, restricting utilisation to greenhouses. The EU institutions’ falsely treat permanent greenhouses as closed spa...
May 22, 2023
The Administrative Court of Montpellier banned two glyphosate products marketed by Syngenta. The company did not submit the mandatory risk assessment on the impacts on bees, other insects, soil and wa...
May 4, 2023
On 26th of April 2023, the European Food Safety Authority published its latest annual report on pesticide residues in food sold in 2021(link is external) in the EU market across the 27 Member Sta...
April 26, 2023
People and nature are not protected from the harmful effect of pesticides. So reads the alarming observation of a broad coalition of organisations in their manifesto in The Netherlands. The initiators...
April 18, 2023
Our #STOPGlyphosate Week can be closed with one main message: there is abundant scientific evidence that glyphosate can cause harm, and there are enough alternatives to end its use. Independent resear...
April 11, 2023
On 30 March 2023, a Luxembourg administrative appeal Court canceled 8 decisions from the Luxembourg government to ban glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs). The Court details that the ban of GBHs is poss...
March 30, 2023
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) invites you to the #STOPGlyphosate Week. Glyphosate poses a risk to our health and endangers biodiversity. The EU authorisation expires in December 2023 an...
March 29, 2023
Two very toxic pesticides will be banned in Europe from 2024. EU Member States agreed on this in their meeting on March 23rd. They are both banned because of their high toxicity to human health and th...
March 28, 2023
One in four pesticide authorisations in Belgium are for products that are potentially carcinogenic, toxic for reproduction, harmful to infants or have endocrine-disrupting effects (hormone disruption)...