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Endive Fields
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...

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Pesticides
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...

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Glyphosate
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...

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Water
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 ...

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Water Jug
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...

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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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Tap Water
High concentrations of TFA in drinking water call for ban on PFAS-containing pesticides

November 15, 2024

Recent measurements by De Watergroep show that concentrations of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a persistent PFAS, are very high in the Belgian region of Flanders. The figures show the need for urgent ac...

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Pesticides & Tractor
Top-Selling PFAS Herbicide Flufenacet Confirmed Harmful by EFSA: 49 Environmental Groups Call for Emergency Ban

November 12, 2024

Flufenacet, a top-selling PFAS Bayer and BASF pesticide, is harmful to humans and the environment, according to the latest scientific opinion of the EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The herbicide acts...

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Towards Pesticide Use Reduction
Reinstate pesticides in policies - 260,000 EU citizens demand it

November 6, 2024

A quarter million Europeans signed a new petition that urges the European Commission to prioritise pesticide reduction. It was presented today, ahead of the hearings for the incoming Commissioners.

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Bedroom - Beds
SOS Bedroom: dozens of endocrine disrupting, neurotoxic and carcinogenic pesticides found in Flemish bedrooms

October 23, 2024

Every year, concerned citizens reach out to Velt (Flemish environmental NGO) because they are exposed to pesticide sprays. This is the reason Velt carried out the ‘SOS Bedroom’ citizens survey. “The g...

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