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🐝🌱🐞 We fight for a pesticide-free world. The primitive toxic era comes to an end. Sustainable agriculture can feed the world, with happy and healthy farmers and citizens. With biodiversity, clean water, healthy soil and good food.
@paneurope.bsky.socialOpinion article by Martin Dermine, Executive Director of PAN Europe 📝
The Feed and Food Omnibus will not address the real problems faced by farmers and citizens; it will only loosen pesticide law. The elephant in the room is the broken agricultural system.
🔗 Read more: euobserver.com/241450/agroc...
@paneurope.bsky.social📚 A new investigation report by @corporateeurope.org exposes how the #pesticide industry and its allies are trying to weaken pesticide regulations and lower the level of protection for people and the environment.
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@paneurope.bsky.social📢 10k farmers and citizens demanded stronger #pesticide rules and an end to the export of banned pesticides + accountability for water & soil pollution at the #Syngenta factory in Normandy 🇫🇷. A 2nd protest took place in🇨🇭.
@paneurope.bsky.social🧪 The EU has been at a standstill for over a year in its meetings to regulate #pesticides. Only the endocrine disruptor buprofezin was finally banned in the latest SCOPAFF meeting at the end of September.
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@paneurope.bsky.social🔬🩸 A new study has detected the ultra-short #PFAS trifluoroacetic acid #TFA in all 110 European participants’ blood samples tested.
We call for an immediate ban on PFAS #pesticides that contribute to TFA pollution.
@paneurope.bsky.socialToday, EU Member States endorsed the Irish Presidency’s compromise on the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus. They support the Commission’s plan to roll back safeguards that protect human health and the environment from #pesticides.
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@paneurope.bsky.socialTogether with @foodwatchde.bsky.social, @inkota.bsky.social & @umweltinstitut.org, @pangermany.bsky.social handed over 145,000 signatures opposing toxic double standards in the #pesticide trade. The EU must finally honour its pledge and put an end to the export of banned pesticides!
@paneurope.bsky.socialJoin us for a high-level conference bringing together policymakers, scientists, civil society, and key stakeholders to discuss how EU legislation can best safeguard health, water quality, and biodiversity while supporting a sustainable agricultural transition.
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@paneurope.bsky.social📩 Over 500 scientists, practitioners, and public health and environmental officials have raised concerns about the rapid pace for the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus, the EU Commission’s proposal to loosen #pesticide regulations.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/over-50...
@paneurope.bsky.socialToday, the European Parliament supported, in plenary session, last week's veto from the Environment Committee against increased Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of Flupyradifurone, a controversial #neonicotinoid, in rapeseed (canola).
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@paneurope.bsky.social💧 EU-wide call to ban #PFAS #pesticides after rise of #TFA in Austrian groundwater. A new scientific analysis of official monitoring data shows a marked increase in TFA contamination in Austrian groundwater linked to agricultural activities
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@paneurope.bsky.socialToday, the EU Parliament vetoed an attempt by the European Commission to increase Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of Flupyradifurone, a controversial neonicotinoid, in rapeseed (canola).
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@paneurope.bsky.social🧬 @pannederland.bsky.social has asked the national #pesticide authority Ctgb to withdraw the authorisation of 50 pesticide formulations. They contain substances that are proven to be endocrine-disrupting or harmful to reproduction.
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@paneurope.bsky.socialYesterday’s joint hearing of the European Parliament’s ENVI and AGRI committees on the Food & Feed Safety Omnibus was dominated by claims that farmers need continued access to toxic #pesticides to maintain yields and fight growing pesticide resistance.
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@paneurope.bsky.socialToday, the European Parliament’s ENVI and AGRI committees are holding a public hearing on the plans to weaken the EU pesticide law via the so-called “food and feed omnibus”. Will scientists’ concerns be heard? Or is the voice of #pesticide manufacturers and users heavily over-represented?
@paneurope.bsky.socialWith its recent #pesticide Omnibus proposal, the Commission seeks to prolong the presence of hazardous pesticides on the market. Members of the EU Parliament are trying to make it even worse. Write to the MEPs and tell them to go against this proposal:
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@paneurope.bsky.social📈 Pesticide sales in the EU rose by 8% in 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching 316.000 tonnes, according to Eurostat data. The EU is far from the objective of gradually reducing farmers' dependency on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
@paneurope.bsky.social🌾 Can agriculture thrive without #pesticides? The answer is a resounding YES! This was shown in a groundbreaking 10-year study in France. Estimated farmers' income was higher than the French national minimum wage in most cases.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...
@paneurope.bsky.social🐦 Birds are far less abundant in agricultural areas where more pesticides are bought. Negative effects were found for over 84% of the species studied. A reduction in #pesticides would be a turning point to stop biodiversity loss.
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