Press releases
March 20, 2015
For the first time a coalition of national and European NGOs have taken the initiative to bring tOgether the voices of the victims of pesticide poisoning by launching today - the first day of the 10th...
March 12, 2015
Food Authority EFSA published today the results of the monitoring of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables for the year 2013. Again the level of toxic mixtures in the food on the market ap...
January 20, 2015
For the first time an in-depth research by a non-commercial group shows the exact numbers of endocrine disrupting pesticides (ED-pesticides) that will be regulated if the options of Commission roadmap...
January 13, 2015
Today Luxembourg court (Grand Chamber) in a final ruling decided that NGO's have no right on access to court and agreed with EU Commission, Council and Czech Republic who started an appeal to a ...
November 26, 2014
The European Commission missed today’s deadline to submit a report to the Parliament and the Council on increased use of alternatives for pest and disease control. Let us hope that this does not refle...
November 11, 2014
In yesterday and today’s agricultural council, the Austrian and the Hungarian delegations will suggest to allow more pesticides in EU’s maize sector under the excuse of needing to eradicate a well-est...
October 22, 2014
PAN Europe welcomes the decision of DG SANCO and its Standing Committee on pesticides last week not to renew the approval of the fungicide Carbendazim. The EU member states must now withdraw national ...
September 30, 2014
The just-launched public consultation on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) [1] is a request merely for scientific data and socio-economic impact assessments rather than public opinion. The questio...
September 24, 2014
Across Europe, concern is growing about the use of hazardous pesticides and the effects they are having on people and the environment. There is a growing movement in France to support pesticide free t...
September 17, 2014
For 7 pesticides proposed by industry for re-approval, PAN Europe identified 434 studies with adverse effects in independent literature. Only 23% (99) of these studies were found by industry in the re...