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Pesticides: Play it safe!
CTGB gaat opnieuw grof de fout in bij beoordeling pesticiden

September 4, 2025

Het CTGB negeert arresten van het Europees Hof van Justitie, uitspraken van het College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven en recente inzichten van de Europese voedselautoriteit EFSA. De instantie besl...

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Water
PAN Europe demands EU Commission to act on PFAS pesticides

July 24, 2025

PAN Europe is calling out the European Commission for its inaction on PFAS pesticides. These substances break down into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent, mobile and toxic degradation pr...

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PAN Europe and DUH object to 18 month ‘grace’ period for Flufenacet - Banned for its toxicity to children’s development and water pollution

July 16, 2025

The EU has banned the PFAS pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater with its breakdown PFAS product, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a smaller but still toxic...

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Pesticide Paradise: How industry and officials protected the most toxic pesticides from a policy push for sustainable farming
EU should keep its promise and end toxic trade in banned pesticides

June 24, 2025

Where the world is on fire with various wars, the EU is continuing an invisible chemical war, exporting tonnes of banned, toxic pesticides to all corners of the world. Today, the “End Toxic Pesticide ...

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Weed management: Alternatives to the use of glyphosate
New scientific publication confirms glyphosate causes cancer at EU “safe” exposure levels – evidence ignored in EU reapproval

June 11, 2025

Long-term exposure to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides causes cancer in laboratory animals at doses deemed “safe” by EU authorities, according to a new landmark publication. Despite early wa...

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EU Law
EU Court Advocate General considers EU re-approval of pesticide cypermethrin unlawful

June 5, 2025

Today, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU concluded that the European Commission acted unlawfully by re-approving the pesticide cypermethrin with major toxicity data gaps in the re...

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European Water Resilience Strategy: sinking ambitions on pesticide pollution

June 4, 2025

Today’s ‘Water Resilience Strategy’ by the European Commission makes bold claims but offers little ambition in protecting water resources from one of its most persistent threats: pesticide pollution. ...

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New Study Reveals Alarming Levels of ‘Forever Chemical’ TFA in bread, pasta, and breakfast cereals

June 3, 2025

PAN Europe and Global 2000 call for an immediate ban of PFAS pesticidesA new study reveals alarmingly high levels of the ‘forever chemical’ trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in everyday cereals and cereal pr...

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Water
ECHA publishes proposal to classify TFA as reprotoxic - PAN Europe asks for urgent ban of all PFAS pesticides

May 27, 2025

PAN Europe welcomes ECHA’s publication of the German proposal to classify TFA as toxic to reproduction. The substance is a breakdown product of PFAS pesticides. We urge the EU to take immediate action...

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Neurons
PAN Europe and Générations Futures ask the European Commission to ban neurotoxic acetamiprid at once

May 21, 2025

Acetamiprid is a neonicotinoid insecticide that is massively used in the EU as an agricultural pesticide and as a biocide. New scientific evidence shows that it presents a risk of developmental neurot...

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