1/2 🚨 If the Commission’s omnibus proposal were adopted, at least 49 synthetic #pesticides would receive unlimited approval. The omnibus proposal on #pesticides will strongly lower the level of protection for citizens and the environment. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Pesticide Action Network raises alarm over 49 pesticides facing unlimited approval in EU ‘omnibus’ proposal

Analysis by Générations Futures, a member of the PAN Europe network, shows that 49 synthetic pesticides would receive unlimited approval if the Commission’s omnibus proposal enters into force on 1 Jan...

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🌊 The European institutions reached a political agreement to update EU rules on water pollution. Yet the text weakens existing key environmental protection measures and principles, thus jeopardising the better protection of European waters. www.pan-europe.info/blog/what-fu...

What is the future for European Waters?

The European institutions finally reached a long-awaited political agreement to update EU rules on water pollution. The agreed text, however, weakens existing key environmental protection measures and...

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🪱 Soil covered the front page of the science journal Nature. Referring to the extensive research of an international team of researchers who said: “Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils” = Pesticides harm soil fertility. www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...

Widespread pesticide use harms soils life

Soil covers this month’s front page of the science journal Nature, headlining with: “Down to Earth - How pesticides reshape soil biodiversity”. The cover refers to the recently published extensive res...

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🐝 We are hiring! 🐞 We are looking for a Senior Policy and Science Officer with a strong scientific background and research experience, who will focus on topics related to the health and environmental regulatory assessment of pesticides. Interested? Apply here: www.pan-europe.info/about-us/tea...

🧠 The insecticide Flupyradifurone is a #beekiller. It proves to be much more harmful for solitary bees than previously thought. It also potentially poses a risk to a child’s developing brain. Like all neonicotinoids, it can pass the blood-brain barrier. www.pan-europe.info/blog/eu-aske...

EU asked to revise insecticide Flupyradifurone

The insecticide Flupyradifurone proves to be much more harmful for bees than previously thought. It also potentially poses a risk to a child’s developing brain. Like all neonicotinoids, it can pass th...

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📚 The EU is paralysed. There is a political deadlock on banning #EDCs and #PFAS #pesticides. At the same time, permits for some of the most toxic #pesticides have been extended. www.pan-europe.info/blog/eu-cont...

EU continues extending permits for some of the most toxic pesticides despite Court ruling, while stalling bans on others

This month's EU pesticide meeting presents a mixed picture. We finally see some long-overdue ban proposals on substances harmful to humans and wildlife under consideration. However, political deadlock...

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The @efsa.europa.eu has acknowledged today that #TFA - a common PFAS pesticide metabolite and widespread pollutant - is far more toxic to human health than previously recognised, cutting its health-based guidance values by over 70%. @generationsfutures.fr www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

EFSA’s new health-based values for TFA urge the ban of PFAS pesticides

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has acknowledged today that TFA - a common PFAS pesticide metabolite and widespread pollutant - is far more toxic to human health than previously recognised, ...

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🧪🔬 A large-scale study assessed the level of exposure to #pesticides, using wristbands worn by farmers and citizens living close to fields. The results show the important exposure to pesticides via pathways other than food. www.pan-europe.info/blog/wristba...

Wristband study proves: farmers and citizens exposed to highly toxic pesticides

A large-scale study assessed the level of exposure to pesticides, using wristbands worn by farmers and citizens living close to fields. The results show the important exposure to pesticides via pathwa...

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📣 Op-ed today in EU Observer 🚜 While farmers suffer the heat, in Brussels Copa-Cogeca and Croplife (pesticide industry) lobbyists join forces to dismantle pesticide safety rules - against the interests of farmers. 👇 Read here: euobserver.com/227840/the-f...

The farming lobby is in bed with the pesticide industry – against the interests of farmers themselves

The lobbyists' goal is to convince MEPs to radically dismantle the existing EU rules on pesticide authorisation and use, rules meant to keep too toxic products off the market.

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Today, PAN Europe received the European Commission Decision on the review of the EU approval of Cypermethrin. Last December the EU Court declared the 2021 reapproval of Cypermethrin to be illegal. Read more: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

European Commission delays ban on cypermethrin despite EU Court judgement

Today, PAN Europe received the European Commission Decision on the review of the EU approval of Cypermethrin. Last December the EU Court declared the 2021 reapproval of Cypermethrin to be illegal. Ins...

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The Chairs of the @droi.europarl.europa.eu & Delegation for Relations with 🇿🇦 have written to @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu, urging the Commission to deliver on its promise & stop the production & export of dangerous #pesticides banned in the EU. #EndToxicTrade www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

🚨 EU politicians are planning to break down the #pesticide law. We need to move in the opposite direction. 🚜 We don't have to poison crops and fields. 📢 Help us and write to EU Parliamentarians. 📝 Sign here: www.pan-europe.info/ban-pesticid...

1/7 🚨🍓 A new investigation by PAN Europe and partner NGOs reveals that strawberries produced in the EU are significantly contaminated with cocktails of highly toxic #pesticides. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

🧠 The fungicide fluazinam can harm brain development, but this evidence was effectively hidden from regulators for more than a decade- new research from scientists at Stockholm University has revealed. www.pan-europe.info/blog/fraud-s...

Fraud scandal in EU pesticide approval system has kept neurotoxic pesticide on the market for years

The fungicide fluazinam can harm brain development, but this evidence was effectively hidden from regulators for more than a decade- new research from scientists at Stockholm University has revealed [...

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Today, parents of children harmed by #pesticide exposure, joined by a former Dutch politician, gathered to share their story and urge EU lawmakers: put public health first & reject any attempt to weaken Europe’s protections from pesticides. @foeeurope.bsky.social www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Families suffering from pesticides demand better health protection, not deregulation

Today in Brussels, parents of children harmed by pesticide exposure, joined by a former Dutch politician who was himself affected by childhood pesticide exposure gathered to share their story and urge...

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🚨 The most far-reaching attack on EU pesticide safety standards. A draft report by MEPs Herbert Dorfmann (EPP) and Michele Picaro (ECR) proposes a sweeping rollback of EU #pesticide rules.

📢 Today, NGOs from the ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ called out the EU Commission following media reports that it would not hold its promise to end the toxic export of EU-banned #pesticides to countries in the Global South. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

European Commission backtracks on promise to end EU exports of banned and dangerous pesticides

Today NGOs from the ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ called out the European Commission following media reports that it would not hold its promise to end the toxic export of EU-banned pesticides ...

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🪙🪲 The beautiful Golden Ground Beetle controls pests like slugs and Colorado beetles. In addition, ground beetles support soil health, act as bio-indicators & feed birds. We need stronger EU pesticide regulations to protect them! #SaveOurInsects www.pan-europe.info/campaigns/pr...

1/3 🧵☕️ An encompassing report released this week by Pesticide Action Network UK exposes a crisis brewing in the heart of the global coffee industry: the widespread use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) across coffee-producing countries. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

New report ‘Poison in Your Coffee’ reveals the widespread use of highly hazardous pesticides

A new encompassing report released this week exposes a crisis brewing in the heart of the global coffee industry: the widespread use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) across coffee-producing count...

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A new scientific analysis published in Science adds to growing evidence that the pesticide omnibus would weaken protection of human health and the environment from harmful #pesticides, while slowing the transition to safer alternatives. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

New science warning raises alarms over EU pesticide Omnibus

A new scientific analysis published in Science is intensifying concerns over the European Commission's Food and Feed Safety Omnibus proposal, just days before key Member State vote on 26 June. The ana...

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🌱🪱 We invite you to the webinar focused on reducing and preventing soil pollution, a key objective of the Soil Mission. 🗓️ When? 29 June 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET. 📍 Where? Online. 👉 Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...

The EU Commission is dragging its feet to properly protect health and the environment. Exactly half a year ago, the highest EU Court ruled that the reauthorisation of cypermethrin was not sufficiently science-based. Yet, no visible action was taken since then. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

🇧🇪🧑‍⚖️ Providing so-called 'emergency authorisations' to keep toxic #pesticides on the market is a recurrent practice from EU Member States. According to PAN Europe and @natprobe.bsky.social, these derogations are not in line with EU law. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Endocrine disruptor Spirotetramat: PAN Europe and Nature et Progrès Belgium take Belgium to Court for once again abusing the derogation system

Providing so-called 'emergency authorisations' to keep toxic pesticides on the market is a recurrent practice from EU Member States. Belgium recently provided a derogation to Spirotetramat, a pesticid...

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⏳⛔Pestizide, die #TFA bilden, müssen verboten werden. Ewigkeitschemikalien die fortpflanzungsschädlich sind, gehören weder ins Essen noch in die Umwelt! Mehr dazu in meiner #PFAS Studie: www.martin-haeusling.eu/themen/oekol...

Studie: PFAS-Pestizide: Bedrohung für Gesundheit und Umwelt - Ewigkeitsgifte in unserer Nahrungskette – Martin Häusling

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The @echa.europa.eu has officially classified #TFA as toxic to reproduction, concluding it "may damage the unborn child" and is “suspected of damaging fertility”. We urge the ban of all #PFAS #pesticides that release TFA into the environment. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

The @echa.europa.eu has officially classified #TFA as toxic to reproduction, concluding it "may damage the unborn child" and is “suspected of damaging fertility”. We urge the ban of all #PFAS #pesticides that release TFA into the environment. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

Confirmed: ECHA classifies TFA as highly hazardous to early-life development - all PFAS pesticides must now be banned

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has officially classified trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) as toxic to reproduction (Category 1B), concluding it "may damage the unborn child" and is “suspected of damag...

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During the European Week Against Cancer, the Commission defended its Beating Cancer Plan, a strategy to tackle cancer from prevention to early detection. While the EU rightly focuses on tackling tobacco & pollution, #pesticides are not even mentioned. www.pan-europe.info/blog/eu-allo...

EU allows cancer-linked pesticides, despite known potential risks

During European Week Against Cancer, the European Commission defended its Beating Cancer Plan, a strategy to tackle cancer from prevention to early detection. While the EU rightly focuses on tackling ...

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📨 Today, on behalf of the End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition, we wrote to the environment ministers of Denmark, France, Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Sweden & Norway. If a pesticide is too dangerous to use in Europe, it is too dangerous to export. www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

Pesticide sales in the EU rose by 8% in 2024 compared to last year, reaching 316.000 tonnes, according to the latest Eurostat data. The new data refute the Commission’s claim of a 61% reduction in #pesticide use, a figure based on a flawed indicator. www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...

Pesticide sales rise in the EU despite Commission claims of decline in use

Pesticide sales in the EU rose by 8% in 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching 316.000 tonnes, according to the latest Eurostat data. The new data refute the Commission’s claim of a 61% reductio...

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Women farm workers and activists from South Africa, representing the Women on Farms Project, came to Brussels and stood face-to-face with EU policy-makers. They shared testimonies of #pesticide exposure and their health impacts - their daily realities on farms: www.pan-europe.info/blog/ending-...

Ending Europe’s toxic pesticide exports: voices from South Africa brought to Brussels

Women farm workers and activists from South Africa, representing the Women on Farms Project, came to Brussels and stood face-to-face with EU policy-makers. Invited by PAN Europe under the End Toxic Pe...

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🚜 The EU negotiations on the Omnibus proposal to weaken the #pesticide regulation are being pushed through at speed, with little scrutiny, no democratic debate, and insufficient expert input. 📨 We sent an open letter to the @cy2026eu.bsky.social: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

NGOs warn against unlimited pesticide product authorisations and rushed EU negotiations

A coalition of public health, environmental, and consumer organisations is sounding the alarm in an open letter to the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The negotiations on the Food and Feed...

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