Newsletters

September 2, 2025

During the summer, we took the first legal step to urge the EU Commission to act on PFAS pesticides. Denmark made a good first step by banning 23 PFAS pesticide products because they pollute groundwat...

July 8, 2025

Many new developments in the pesticide field this month. New, groundbreaking research links Glyphosate to cancer. Biodiversity is in strong decline, so we need good indicators to achieve effective pro...

June 10, 2025

A lot is happening on the pesticide issue. The number of food products with pesticide cocktails went up. The SCoPAFF committee discussed a possible ban on TFA-generating PFAS pesticides. EU Member Sta...

May 10, 2025

We found TFA contamination in wine across ten wine-producing EU countries. Organisations from across the globe call on Bayer shareholders to end their attempts to undermine laws and regulations that p...

April 10, 2025

Pesticides threaten the bulk of life on Earth, says Professor Dave Goulson in our interview. The EU still allows very harmful substances based on an outdated guideline co-written by industry. This wil...

March 10, 2025

We have started two major new campaigns. Our pesticide regulations do not protect insects and other arthropods essential for our quality of life and for our food production. Professor Carsten Bruhl ex...

February 3, 2025

We won a major court case with EU-wide implications. Toxic endive was recalled by supermarkets in Belgium and the Netherlands. The chemical industry lobby tries to block PFAS restrictions. Did you hav...

December 12, 2024

Busy weeks in the fight for health and biodiversity. In a new report, we expose how the EU guidelines for protecting insects failed to block harmful pesticides. With our partners, we brought the case ...

November 14, 2024

Our drinking water is in danger due to widespread contamination with TFA. We are crossing another planetary boundary, according to a group of scientists. Dozens of endocrine-disrupting, neurotoxic and...

October 14, 2024

Hazardous pesticides banned in Europe are making their way into European consumers’ diets, according to our new report. The European Commission is using a dangerous concept to renew the authorisation ...