Press releases
May 15, 2025
New figures released by the European Food Safety Authority [1] reveal that 42% of European food sold across Europe contains pesticide residues, with fruits such as pears and oranges being at the top o...
May 13, 2025
In an urgent call for action, Members of the European Pesticide Action Network (PAN Europe) projected a clear message onto the European Commission headquarters in Brussels demanding immediate politica...
May 7, 2025
Today, the European Parliament adopted its own-initiative report on the upcoming EU Water Resilience Strategy, signalling the need for stronger efforts to tackle water pollution, including that from p...
April 23, 2025
No contamination before 1988 - sharp increase since 2010 - current levels very highBrussels, 23 April 2025 – New data revealing a dramatic rise in levels of the forever chemical TFA (trifluoroacetic a...
April 10, 2025
At 4:30 on Thursday morning, EU institutions reached a provisional agreement on the long-awaited, and first-ever, EU legislative framework for soils: the Soil Monitoring Law. However, the deal f...
April 9, 2025
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee failed to take a step forward in its ambition to protect Europe’s water resources under the EU Water Resilience Strategy. It adopted a report that has b...
March 27, 2025
The EU is reviewing a guidance document to protect insects and other arthropods against the negative effects of pesticides. The current document is outdated and was co-written by the pesticide industr...
March 24, 2025
A group of over 450 scientists is calling on the European Union to swiftly update its water pollution standards to address the increasing threat of chemical pollution, including PFAS (‘forever chemica...
March 19, 2025
On the eve of the Pesticide Action Week [1], the Cluj (Romania) Court of Appeal suspended [2] new derogations [3] granted by the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture for the use of neonicotinoid-treated s...
March 18, 2025
PAN Europe is co-organising a high-level event at the European Parliament tomorrow Wednesday 19 March to address an urgent and largely overlooked global threat to drinking water: Trifluoroacetic acid ...