Press releases
June 4, 2013
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) heeft in opdracht van het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (IenM) de kwaliteit van het werk van het Ctgb (Commissie toelating van gewasbeschermingsm...
May 17, 2013
Two new pesticides for seed treatment, Sedexane, a Syngenta fungicide for wheat, and Penflufen, a Bayer fungicide for potatoes, both show high risks for birds according to the EFSA opinions [1], [2]. ...
May 6, 2013
Today, the European Commission has adopted "a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain" and, as part of this, a proposal for ...
May 2, 2013
Today an employee of German chemical multinational BASF, Mr. Bernhard van Ravenzwaay, will officially get a professor seat at Dutch agricultural university of Wageningen [1] in exchange for BASF-fundi...
April 29, 2013
PAN Europe warmly welcomes the vote of European Member States in favour of the proposal of the European Commission to ban 3 neonicotinoids (imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin) toxic to bees f...
March 20, 2013
Last Friday, Member States obtained no qualified majority on the vote on the proposal of the European Commission to temporary ban 3 harmful neonicotinoid insecticides to bees. 13 Member States voted i...
March 20, 2013
The opinion of the European Food Authority EFSA on endocrine disruption as published today is a big disappointment for PAN Europe.In fact, EFSA mainly adds confusion to the debate by introducing a new...
March 18, 2013
Food Authority EFSA claims in their just released 2010-pesticides residue European monitoring report [1] that pesticide residues in food pose no long-term risks to humans. PAN Europe feels this ...
March 13, 2013
25 Million kg of a very hazardous pesticide, the soil fumigant Metam Sodium, is released in the European environment every year based on an exception created by DG SANCO and the EU Member States that ...
March 12, 2013
It is too late to change the entire logic of the Common Agricultural Policy which is currently being reformed in the EU, though, the plenary of the European Parliament has the opportunity to get the r...