Briefings
January 14, 2025
The EU Vision for Agriculture and Food should prioritise policy action to ambitiously reduce pesticides. Reducing pesticide use and risk is a key objective of the Green Deal. Reducing pesticide use an...
December 12, 2024
The Flemish government approved a new pesticide plan last week, but it falls fundamentally short. While pesticides are harmful to biodiversity and public health, it lacks effective measures. The preca...
December 3, 2024
What do mineral waters and a ‘forever chemical’ with a difficult-to-pronounce name like trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) have in common? Nothing, at least in an ideal world. Unfortunately, reality paints a ...
November 28, 2024
Healthy soils are essential for life, providing the foundation for 95% of the food we eat. They filter and store water, help plants grow and are critical to the long-term resilience and stability of f...
September 26, 2024
Aquatic ecosystems are home to a wide range of species and are vital for society and economic activities, yet they are under immense pressure from anthropogenic impact. More than 20 years after agreei...
April 25, 2024
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was established in 2002 in compliance with Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 on the General Food Law, known as Founding Regulation, to provide scientific advice and...
April 17, 2024
The EU Pesticide Regulation (1107/2009) is, in theory, one of the strictest regulations in the world. To guarantee a high level of protection, it requires that pesticides and their residues have no ha...
February 27, 2024
While it is now notorious that PFAS are used in diverse consumer products (such as frying pans, textiles, food packaging etc), it is less well known that PFAS pesticides are intentionally sprayed on f...
January 18, 2024
According to EU Regulation on Pesticides (Reg. (EC) 1107/2009), pesticides placed on the EU market should have no harmful effects to human and animal health and no unacceptable effects to the environm...
December 21, 2023
The Pesticide Network Europe (PAN Europe) welcomes the European Commission’s long overdue (9 years) draft Regulation defining data requirements for the approval of safeners and synergists and establis...