Press releases
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 ...
November 12, 2012
EFSA has a track record of working closely with industry and with industry-linked people presenting themselves as independent scientist. EFSA easily embraces industry ideas while forgetting about thei...
October 9, 2012
EU Health Commissioner John Dalli decided to start a review of the approval of pesticide Chlorpyrifos after years of accumulated evidence of harm. This was announced yesterday in a letter to PAN ...
September 25, 2012
EFSA has asked Helen Thompson from the British Food Agency to write a report on interactions between pesticides and other factors in effects on bees. Helen Thompson is well known to have been working ...
July 12, 2012
Environmental and farming groups call for greener and fairer farming.As the European Commission organises an important conference on the future of Europe’s farming (July 13), environmental and farming...
July 11, 2012
In 2011, EU Member States granted 230 pesticide authorizations for emergency situations. Again France is the top-user of the 120-day derogation with 32 cases. The use of unauthorised pesticides increa...
July 6, 2012
The Scientific Committees of DG SANCO (SCCS on TTC ) and EFSA (EFSA opinion on TTC ) this week adopted their opinions on the controversial risk management tool TTC, the threshold of toxicological conc...