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Pesticide Free Towns
Pesticide Free Towns: A Diversity of European Approaches

March 28, 2022

This report explores the various approaches taken by eight European member states to reduce or ban pesticide use in “sensitive” public areas and towns at large. The report underscores that phasing out...

Taking aim with a blindfold on
Taking aim with a blindfold on

February 2, 2022

Halving the use and risk of pesticides by 2030 is one of the key measures under the European Green Deal to halt biodiversity loss and promote healthy ecosystems. But currently, no meaningful data are ...

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Activity Report 2020

September 30, 2021

The new European Commission has detailed its European Green Deal through the Farm to Fork (F2F), the Biodiversity Strategies (BS), and the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS). For the first tim...

PESTICIDES IN OUR BEDROOM
Pesticides in our bedroom

September 21, 2021

Intensive agriculture being th edominant model of food production in the EU, citizens living in rural areas are regularly exposed to pesticides. Numerous epidemiological studies indicate that res...

EFSA : Science or ideology?
EFSA : Science or ideology? EFSA’s happy genotox marriage with industry-funded ILSI

June 7, 2021

PAN Europe's latest report, published on World Food Safety Day, shows that the controversial EU food safety agency (EFSA) ignored positive cancer risk test results to clear the use of 12 unstable pest...

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Using the CAP to turn the IPM triangle on to its solid base

April 20, 2021

With this report PAN Europe wants to show that the necessary changes to our agricultural system can be done now through an holistic uptake of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). However, as this report ...

Biomonitoring of pesticides in hair: How veterinary drugs contaminate human hair
Biomonitoring of pesticides in hair: How veterinary drugs contaminate human hair

March 22, 2021

EMA opens the gates to hazardous pesticides Forty-seven pesticides were detected in human hair samples taken from 21 volunteers in the Netherlands. The findings of our new report [LINK] mainly co...

Consumer Guide 2021
Consumer Guide 2021: Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides in Your Food

March 12, 2021

Consumers are advised to avoid exposure  to endocrine disrupting pesticides (EDPs), which can be found  as pesticide residues in conventionally-grown fruit and vegetables. Due to their harmful effects...

Member States against EU pesticide reduction
Member States against EU pesticide reduction

January 14, 2021

An access to documents request carried out by PAN Europe showed that, behind closed doors, Member States are revealing their real positions on the EU Green Deal: Only one Member State is willing to en...

Banned and Hazardous Pesticides in European Food
Banned and Hazardous Pesticides in European Food

September 29, 2020

PAN Europe carried out an investigation to find out whether pesticides banned in the EU [according to 1107/2009 and PIC legislation1] are detected in food sold on the EU market, using the EU official ...

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