Press releases
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
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 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 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...
March 5, 2013
Today the European Landowner Association (ELO),supported by Syngenta, is organising its 6th Forum for the Future of Agriculture, ahuge conference addressed by a number of key speakers with this y...
February 1, 2013
19 years after the first massive honeybee colony losses reported by beekeepers on imidacloprid-treated sunflower crops in France, the European Commission finally declared its intention to move concern...
January 16, 2013
Food Authority EFSA concluded today that seed-coating with the pesticides Imidacloprid, Thiamethoxam and Clothianidin -all neonicotinoid insecticides- poses a high direct risk to bees from crops produ...
December 20, 2012
New scandal concerning the Maximum Residue Limits of pesticides in food: reveals Générations Futures how in its calculations the European Commission artificially divides by 2 the amount of pesticides ...