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May 9, 2022
Pesticides such as glyphosate could have a role in heart rhythm disorders (i.e. atrial fibrillation). According to scholars, there are such clear indications of this that the Amsterdam professor Bianc...
April 6, 2022
On 24 February 2022, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its latest annual report on pesticide residues in food for the year 2020[1]. Data show that half of the fruit and vegetables on...
March 17, 2022
Today, an important hearing has taken place in the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg. PAN Europe asked the Court to clarify the rules for the provision of derogations for EU-banned pesticides. ...
March 15, 2022
On 15 March 2022, Pesticide Action Network Europe joined a protest at the Forum for the Future of Agriculture(link is external) in Brussels. This lobby event is organized by Syngenta and other a...
February 24, 2022
The European Commission has promised to restrict the use of pesticides. This is about time, for numerous researches show the damage to our health and the devastating effect on nature, biodiversity and...
June 25, 2021
Today, DG Sante has convened stakeholders in a meeting where it presented its proposal for carrying out an impact assessment of the revision of the so-called Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (S...
June 11, 2021
Since their approval in the EU in the 1990s, neonicotinoids have been widely criticized, and then proven to be harmful to bees and other pollinators, as well as to biodiversity as a whole. Several stu...
May 26, 2021
A few days ago, the Italian Council of State confirmed the possibility for the city of Conegliano, located in the Prosecco wine production area, to ban the use of synthetic pesticides on its terr...
March 26, 2021
Pesticides residues can be found in soils a long time after application, even in soils long converted to organic farming, as a recent and outstanding study pointed out(link is external). This research...
February 26, 2021
Following the derogations provided to farmers by the Belgian state for the use of neonicotinoids on sugar beets, PAN Europe, its member Nature & Progrès Belgique and a Belgian beekeeper have taken...