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EU Commission
Massive industry network uncovered in EFSA and WHO trying to stop the new policy on stricter food standards for pesticide mixtures; first ever example of EU Commission fighting back

February 4, 2014

PAN Europe research reveals a covered multi-year orchestrated industry lobby to stop adopted policy to protect people against the harms of everyday consumption of pesticide mixtures. A network of indu...

Pesticide
Stop risky herbicide 2,4-D

January 27, 2014

Growing of genetically engineered plants likely to increase spraying of “agent orange herbicide”  - if approved, it could be imported into the EU as GM animal feed.Testbiotech, GeneWatch UK and t...

EU Commission
It is a fact now: European Commission missed the deadline for presenting the criteria for endocrine disrupting pesticides

December 16, 2013

According to pesticide Regulation 1107/2009 European Commission should present “a draft of the measures concerning specific scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties...

IPM
Of course we can feed Europe using less pesticides

December 5, 2013

Today the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA), the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) are hosting  ...

Industry writing Its own rules
3 Million Euro EU subsidy for food industry to promote the lowering of food standards

October 15, 2013

Today, European food traders organization Freshfel and a few national institutes present the results of the program ACROPOLIS on the so-called 'probabilistic risk assessment' of mixtures of pesticide ...

EU Court
Luxemburg court rules that EU Commission has to make public the full composition of pesticides

October 8, 2013

Today, 8th of October 2013, an important verdict has been published by the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxemburg) on the access of information concerning pesticides [1].In 2010, to PAN Eur...

EU Commission
European Commission attempts to suppress citizens’ access to environmental justice

October 7, 2013

On Wednesday last week, the European Commission has exposed its REFIT (Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme) plan to increase Commission’s efficiency by reducing “regulatory burdens” [1] under...

Glyphosate
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM: Pesticide authorisation bodies in Europe compete for industry applications, sacrificing the protection of the environment

September 24, 2013

A new Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN-E) study reveals that the national authorities in the Netherlands fail to protect the environment against the harmful effects of pesticides. European Regulat...

EDCs
PAN Europe on the EDCs French Strategy: a provision that should not be present

September 16, 2013

The European network Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) denounces the provision to support a priori a revision of the European criteria for the exclusion of pesticides endocrine disruptors a...

eu parliament
Can a science director at food authority EFSA with an industry background be neutral on science?

September 10, 2013

The European Food Authority EFSA promoted Ms. Juliane Kleiner to the crucial position of science director just before the summer. Ms. Kleiner used to work for industry lobby group ILSI (International ...

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