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EU Member States agree to ban flufenacet - PAN Europe calls for immediate action on all PFAS pesticides

March 13, 2025

In a landmark decision on 12 March, EU Member States adopted the European Commission's proposal to ban the endocrine-disrupting PFAS pesticide flufenacet. PAN Europe applauds this decisive action, whi...

Today the Commission published its Vision for Agriculture and Food. The text includes a worrying unscientific pesticide industry narrative on pesticides. The Commission backtracked on commitments to better protect EU agriculture competitiveness and citize

March 4, 2025

PAN Europe has asked the EU Commission to withdraw the pesticide and biocide deltamethrin from the market immediately to prevent any further harm to unborn children. New research shows that exposure o...

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

EU Vision for Agriculture and Food contains unscientific industry narrative on pesticides

February 19, 2025

Today the Commission published its Vision for Agriculture and Food. The text includes a worrying unscientific pesticide industry narrative on pesticides. The Commission backtracked on commitments to b...

The time for delay is over: EU must phase out pesticides and build sustainable food systems

January 23, 2025

85 organisations - including environmental, health, and human rights groups, as well as farm worker unions and farmer organisations - have created a Roadmap for Pesticide Phase-Out for EU policy-maker...

Escarola tóxica de origen español retirada de un supermercado en Bélgica y Países Bajos

January 21, 2025

La semana pasada, la cadena de supermercados Albert Heijn decidió retirar sus bolsas de escarola en Países Bajos y Bélgica debido a los niveles excesivos de tau-fluvalinato, un «químico permanente» tó...

PAN successfully challenges pesticide product authorisation - major implications

January 20, 2025

PAN Europe has won a major victory in court. The highest administrative court in The Netherlands overturned the rejection of our objection to the authorisation of Dagonis, an agricultural fungicide. T...

Next step: glyphosate approval is brought to the European Court of Justice

December 11, 2024

Today, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe and its members ClientEarth, Générations Futures, GLOBAL 2000, Pesticide Action Network Germany and Pesticide Action Network Netherlands challenge the Euro...

About time: European Parliament finally greenlights negotiations on water pollutants

December 4, 2024

Today, the European Parliament’s environment committee gave the green light to start trilogue negotiations on the update of EU water pollution standards. While this formal approval to proceed towards ...

Forever Chemical Found Even in Pristine Mineral Waters

December 3, 2024

EU Commission Set to Propose Ban on Pesticides Due to TFA pollutionOver the past few months, more evidence has emerged about the widespread contamination of rivers, tap water, and even mineral water a...

Licence to Kill - an EU guideline with far-reaching consequences

Licence to Kill: EU guideline to protect insects failed to block harmful pesticides

November 26, 2024

Insect law fails to block a single pesticide in 22 years - reviewGovernments still using guidelines ghost-written by the chemical industry despite crashing ecosystemsEU food safety agency now hiring c...

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