Press releases
May 22, 2007
As the debate progresses over a proposed Directive(1) determining which polluting chemicals should be limited in Europe's water, the European Parliament today voted to increase the number, but yielded...
May 21, 2007
Environment and health NGOs are concerned that in their plenary vote(1) tomorrow, MEPs will probably reconfirm the weak cross-party compromise previously reached in the Environment Committee, which ai...
May 3, 2007
During the Third Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention this week in Dakar Senegal, Director of the World Health Organization Office on Public Health and Environment Dr Maria Neira stated c...
April 11, 2007
Pesticide Action Network applauds move toward prior informed consent requirement for trade of toxic pesticide endosulfan.Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international network focused on protecting ...
March 7, 2007
Rising rates of mental and behavioural disorders could be slowed by tighter EU pesticide regulation, a Harvard University professor will tell the European Parliament today. (1) Prof. Philippe Grandjea...
December 11, 2006
EU authorities will shortly announce whether they will authorise Fipronil, an active substance used in the manufacture of new insecticides. This active substance is suspected of seriously harming bees...
November 3, 2006
This week, the European Commission released the latest EU monitoring results of pesticides residues in food showing alarming levels of contamination [1]. At the same time, 18 environmental, health and...
September 26, 2006
Groups denounce scandalous "clean bill of health" for DDT, call for solutions to malaria that don't put children at risk.A broad coalition of health and toxics experts from every continent called on t...
September 14, 2006
Strong opposition by Member States and environmental and health NGOs caused the European Commission yesterday to give in and apply more precaution in authorising highly toxic pesticides. Next Monday, ...
September 6, 2006
Tomorrow, dozens of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) representatives from all regions in Europe will gather in a conference to demand national Governments, European Institutions and private compani...