Press releases
July 1, 2026
Today in Brussels, parents of children harmed by pesticide exposure, joined by a former Dutch politician who was himself affected by childhood pesticide exposure gathered to share their story and urge...
June 29, 2026
Today NGOs from the ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ called out the European Commission following media reports that it would not hold its promise to end the toxic export of EU-banned pesticides ...
June 23, 2026
A new encompassing report released this week exposes a crisis brewing in the heart of the global coffee industry: the widespread use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) across coffee-producing count...
June 22, 2026
BackgroundThe leaked draft report on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus, published by Contexte on 22 June, reveals that MEPs Dorfmann (EPP) and Picaro (ECR) propose a sweeping deregulation of EU pestici...
June 22, 2026
A new scientific analysis published in Science is intensifying concerns over the European Commission's Food and Feed Safety Omnibus proposal, just days before key Member State vote on 26 June. Th...
June 17, 2026
Providing so-called 'emergency authorisations' to keep toxic pesticides on the market is a recurrent practice from EU Member States. Belgium recently provided a derogation to Spirotetramat [1], a pest...
June 10, 2026
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has officially classified trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) as toxic to reproduction (Category 1B), concluding it "may damage the unborn child" and is “suspected of damag...
May 28, 2026
A coalition of public health, environmental, and consumer organisations is sounding the alarm in an open letter to the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The negotiations on the Food and Feed...
May 13, 2026
New information from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) proposes a safer, faster, and more effective alternative to the European Commission’s Omnibus “simplification” proposal, which would gran...
May 5, 2026
A new report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) [1] reveals that 41.6% of fruit and vegetables sold in the EU contain pesticide residues, with 25.5% containing more than one residue. This me...