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Network News
2 April 2008
HEAL:
Pesticide reform linked to breast cancer reduction
Health & Environment Alliance (HEAL) and CHEM Trust hold a joint event highlighting the need to decrease exposure to endocrine disruptors in the fight to curb breast cancer. The seminar, held in the European Parliament, was hosted by Avril Doyle MEP (EPP, Ireland) and marked the publication of
'Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence' - a report written Professor Andreas Kortenkamp, Head of the Centre for Toxicology at the School of Pharmacy, London.
- Press Release
- Report
- Briefing (English) (French)
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20 March 2008
MDRGF launches 3rd 'Semaine sans Pesticides'
The third and biggest ever 'Semaine sans Pesticides' is held, as usual, over the last 10 days of March. This year the celebrations encompass over 400 events across France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Quebec, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and
United Kingdom. Campaigners marked the occasion by holding conferences, movie projections, debates, exhibitions, and agricultural training workshops, as well as events in garden centres, farms, markets and schools. A high profile action drew attention to the catastrophic impact of pesticides on French groundwater resources as activists in two regions of France climbed water towers and dropped banners which read: 'SAVE WATER!'
- Semaine sans Pesticide Website |
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 19 March 2008
SSNC gets tough on potatoes
A new report by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation highlights the high volumes of pesticides applied to potatoes. Europe's potatoes receive a higher dose of synthetic fungicides than any other major crop. In Sweden potatoes account for just 1% of farmland, but receive 40% of all fungicides.
- Press Release (Swedish)
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21 February 2008
PAN Germany: Biodiversity vs. Pesticides
Ahead of the May 2008 United Nation's Conference on Biological Diversity to be held in Bonn, PAN Germany hosts a symposium aimed at presenting first hand information on the negative impacts of pesticides on biodiversity.  Presentations focus on policy issues and analyse how agriculture in general, and more specifically the use of pesticides, are represented in Germany's National Biodiversity Action Plan.
- Event Brochure
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 13 February 2008
FOE Europe: GM increases pesticide use
A new study by Friends of the Earth debunks one of Biotech's biggest claims: that GM technology will decrease pesticide use. The FOE investigation shows not only that this prediction is wrong, but that GM crops lead to substantially increases in pesticide use.
- Press Release - Report |
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7 February 2008
Greenpeace Germany blacklists 327 highly toxic pesticides
Greenpeace Germany publishes a list of 327 pesticides which according to a
new study are particularly dangerous to health and the environment. A total of 1134 pesticides in use worldwide were examined on behalf of the environmental organisation by  two independent experts who looked at them under 14 different aspects. 29 per cent were put on a 'blacklist of dangerous pesticides'. These included 168 pesticides permitted in the European Union. Greenpeace is calling on the EU to ban these most dangerous pesticides.
- Press Release (German) (English)
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31 January 2008
Greenpeace Germany: Food contamination greatly underestimated
Greenpeace Germany publishes a new study showing that current pesticide residues analysis greatly underestimates the extent to which mainstream food is contaminated. The report, 'The Limits of Pesticide Analysis', finds that of the 1350 pesticides used in agriculture worldwide, only 600 active substances can be identified  by food monitoring programmes. Residues of the pesticides, which are often highly toxic, enter plant tissue thereby contaminating food products sold in Germany. Greenpeace demands a halt to the use and registration of these toxins which are virtually invisible during monitoring.
- Press Release (English) (German)
- Report (German) |
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