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EDCs
Endocrine Disruption Criteria Update: A roadmap to nowhere

June 18, 2014

The roadmap published yesterday by the European Commission on Endocrine Disruption Chemicals criteria incorporates all the threats to cancel-out the effectiveness of the pesticide and biocide regulati...

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Member States against EU pesticide reduction
Europe’s Green Capitals will get greener from 2017 – an important beginning in the needed transition towards detoxing our cities

June 6, 2014

Every year one European city with over 100.000 inhabitants is chosen as Europe’s Green Capital, the winning city commits to a number of environmental, biodiversity and climate goals (1). However since...

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Food
European Food is not as safe as European Food Safety Authority pretends

May 27, 2014

A few days ago, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released the annual report on pesticides residues in food. While the Authority claims that 93% of tested food does not exceed the Maximum ...

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Grapes
Review concludes: Pesticide Chlorpyrifos may exceed safe health levels in grapes

May 22, 2014

In 2012 Health Commissioner Dalli demanded a review of the insecticide and nerve poison Chlorprifos [1] because of new evidence put forward by academic studies that showed harmful effects caused by th...

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Pesticides
New attack on EU policy regarding endocrine disruption: Health DG SANCO prepares an escape route for pesticides

May 20, 2014

Commission health service DG SANCO is on its way to develop an escape route for endocrine disrupting pesticides that will be banned in future. This is done behind closed doors with EU member states an...

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Forbidden fruit: The dramatic rise in dangerous pesticides found on fruits and vegetables sold in Europe and evidence that governments are failing their legal obligations
PAN Europe supports Italian citizens' initiative to limit pesticides use in Vinschgau, South Tyrol

April 1, 2014

“Vinschgau: Cultural Region in South Tirol” – This advertisement promotes a cultural landscape in northern Italy that has developed over the last 1000 years. The region represents the longest valley o...

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Bees
Bees on the spotlight in Brussels: Feverish start to April with debate controlled by agro-chemical industry interests

March 31, 2014

The first week of April 2014, Brussels hosts a series of conferences dealing with bees and pollination. One of these, the Bee Week will take place for the third consecutive year at the European Parlia...

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EU Law
European Ombudsman condemns Food Authority EFSA twice for maladministration

March 28, 2014

In 2011, PAN Europe started a complaint at the Ombudsman on the EFSA Working Group on TTC (Threshold of Toxicological Concern), a statistical approach for risk assessment substituting safety testing. ...

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Pesticides
Member States are far from complying with EU targets to reduce pesticides use

March 27, 2014

High time for the European Commission to take action to ensure respect of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides DirectivePesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has today sent another letter to Commi...

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Member States against EU pesticide reduction
Pesticides use in ecological focus areas: The delegated acts of the Common Agricultural Policy reform move responsibility to Member States

March 12, 2014

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) finds it deplorable that the European Commission did not manage to agree on a set of delegated acts answering such a simple question as to whether or not t...

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