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Will the EU prolong the use of a Toxic 12 and a PFAS pesticide?

July 11, 2023

Two very toxic pesticides could and should be banned in Europe. They are both highly toxic to humans and environment, listed among the most dangerous pesticides that should be substituted in the EU. E...

Glyphosate and Water
Belgian organisations call for a glyphosate ban

July 4, 2023

A coalition of 46 organisations is calling on the Flemish, Walloon and federal governments to impose a total ban on glyphosate in an open letter(link is external). They want to protect citizens, farme...

Lilies
Dutch judge bans spraying of pesticides on lily fields

June 19, 2023

For the very first time, a judge in an EU country has banned the spraying of pesticides on a specific crop because it poses high risks to health. A lily grower in the north of the Netherlands is no lo...

Neurotoxic
EU citizens are not protected against neurotoxic effects of pesticides

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...

Greenhouse
PAN Europe requests to end the use of very toxic pesticides in greenhouses

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...

Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate
France court bans two glyphosate-based pesticides

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...

Supermarket
Pesticide residues in EU food- nothing to applaud for

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...

Tractor
Social Manifesto on Pesticides: organisations call on dutch government to protect people and nature from harmful effects of pesticides

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...

Into The Weeds
The arguments to ban glyphosate pile up

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...

Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate
Yes, EU countries can ban glyphosate products - but Luxembourg made a mistake

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...

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