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February 12, 2025
Thinking of buying a bouquet for Valentine’s Day? While celebrating love is beautiful, it is worth considering what is in flowers. Your gift might be more toxic than romantic. Valentine’s Day falls in...
February 10, 2025
The European Commission seems to be rethinking its stance on importing food with pesticides. Recently, the new EU farm chief, Christophe Hansen, recognised that it is unfair to allow food imports from...
February 6, 2025
Our partner IFOAM Organics Europe launched a campaign to raise awareness of the social, economic and environmental impacts of pesticides. They aim to inform and support farmers to adopt agronomic and ...
February 5, 2025
Europe faces an urgent challenge: protecting its water resources from harmful chemical contamination. At the center of this issue are PFAS pesticides that contribute to significant levels of trifluoro...
February 4, 2025
Today is World Cancer Day. We all know the link to tobacco, but what about pesticides? A new U.S. study found that living in agricultural areas with heavy pesticide exposure can raise cancer risk just...
January 21, 2025
Last week, supermarket chain Albert Heijn had to recall its endives due to excessive levels of the “forever chemical” pesticide tau-fluvalinate, which is toxic to bees and belongs to a group of p...
January 16, 2025
The chemical industry lobby is wielding its influence against an EU's proposal to restrict PFAS – "forever chemicals”. According to a new investigation by The Forever Lobbying Project — a collaboratio...
January 9, 2025
Eat your Christmas tree? Yes, in northern countries people use the needles for a very special herb butter. In the UK and Netherlands books with recipes were published in recent years. The Belgian city...
December 18, 2024
The Brussels region decided to strongly restrict the use of synthetic pesticides in agricultural land to protect citizens' health and the environment. It is the first time that an EU region or country...
December 16, 2024
In many countries, people decorate their houses with Christmas trees. Cosy for happy family and friends meetings. We hope you’re one of the lucky people who can enjoy this. But did you ever consider t...