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September 20, 2022
On september 20th UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights Marcos Orellano presented his report on pesticide use in Italy. He congratulates Italy with steps taken to reduce pesticides, but exp...
September 7, 2022
Why did PAN Europe ask the EU to suspend payments to the World Food Organisation FAO? And why is the FAO so closely connected to Croplife International, the lobby organisation of the pesticide industr...
September 1, 2022
The world food organisation FAO has been strongly critised by civil society organisations for signing a partnership with pesticide lobby organisation Croplife International. “This is like the world he...
August 11, 2022
The EU has presented a proposal for a new regulation on pesticide reduction. This law will regulate how we deal with pesticides for many years to come and can be a real game changer. However, the curr...
June 2, 2022
Following a PAN Europe letter highlighting recent scientific findings on the alarming risk posed by neonicotinoid insecticides to children’s brain development, the EU Commission said no action would b...
May 30, 2022
The city of Florence has signed the Pledge in which it bans pesticides in public places. This change will bring many benefits, such as an increase in life quality, the elimination of da...
May 20, 2022
On World Bee Day, it is compelling to highlight that the level of protection of bees against pesticides remains far from optimal in the EU. While bee-toxic sulfoxaflor insecticide was banned earlier t...
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. ...