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Member States against EU pesticide reduction

Sustainable Use of Pesticides, an EU Challenge: Very few Member States are engaging to reduce their use of pesticides

June 20, 2013

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has sent today a letter to Commissioner Borg questioning Member States’ seriousness in implementing the Directive on Sustainable Use of pesticides, identif...

Neonicotinoid insecticides residues in our food!

June 13, 2013

Générations Futures and Pesticide Action Network Europe prove that our food contains residues of neonicotinoid family of insecticides implicated in the decline of bee colonies and urges the French Gov...

Kwaliteit beoordeling bestrijdingsmiddelen in Nederland ver onder de maat

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...

Again a bad day for birds in Europe: brand new pesticides allowed on the market that put birds at risk

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]. ...

Lack of environmental as well as public health considerations in the proposal for a new EU Common plant health regime

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 ...

THE SILENT TAKEOVER: Dutch Wageningen University moves on to sell their independence to industry

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...

European ban on neonicotinoids: Historic victory for the environment

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...

EFSA’s opinion on endocrine disrupting chemicals adds confusion and undermines the Pesticide Regulation

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...

European Commission goes to Appeal Committee on neonicotinoid ban

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...

Pesticide Paradise: How industry and officials protected the most toxic pesticides from a policy push for sustainable farming

“Pesticide residues pose no long-term risk to humans”, European Food Authority EFSA falsely claims

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 ...

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