Factsheets
January 22, 2019
Chlorpyrifos, a developmental neurotoxic pesticide, is one of the most commonly used insecticides in Europe. Yet increasing evidence links it with serious health conditions including disruption of the...
September 14, 2016
Two controversial active substances of insecticides have received an EU authorisation in 2015: sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone. These insecticides have been presented by their producers as belonging t...
June 1, 2016
Food security depends very much on the number of people needing food, the level of consumption of people (especially animal diets), and the availability of (fertile) lands. According to the FAO (The s...
October 1, 2015
In total 349 different pesticides are present in food products sold in the EU.1 Some 45.7% of food items tested are found to contain pesticides, including 5% – one item in 20 – which contain pesticide...
October 1, 2015
Endosulfan is a ‘persistent organic pollutant’ (POP) as defined under the Stockholm Convention: it is persistent in the environment, bioaccumulative, demonstrates long range environmental transport, a...
October 1, 2015
Agriculture is a big contributor to climate change. According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Fourth Assessment Report, 2007) this accounts to 10-12% on all anthropogenic greenhous...
October 1, 2015
In recent years many major European supermarkets have taken steps to reduce the levels of pesticides present in the food items they sell. These commitments provide a concrete demonstration that major ...
August 5, 2015
Independent literature shows that the pesticide Carbendazim is a very dangerous "toxin", capable of causing malformations in the foetus at very low doses and it's still uncertain if a safe level exist...
July 15, 2015
According to the European Crop Protection Agency (ECPA) between 15% and 20% of the 210 most important pesticide substances on the EU market are toxic to bees (HQ>50%). A follow up study by the UK P...