Factsheets
The following factsheets are available in pdf format:
Pesticide Co-formulants: Hidden Toxins Remain Under the Radar
What are Co-formulants, Synergists and Safeners in Pesticides?
Contribution to the EU feedback mechanism on Sustainable Food Systems – New Initiative
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the idea of the EU developing a law paving the way towards a Sustainable Food Systems1 . The public consultations aim at allowing citizens and stakeholders to provide feedback on the intended initiative.
Patterns of systematic and unlawful prolongation of toxic pesticide approvals by the European Commission
Why EFSA’s assessments of Member States’ 120-days derogations on pesticides are flawed
For the second time, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has produced a flawed assessment on derogations provided by Member States for the use of neonicotinoids, based on article 53 of the pesticide regulation 1107/2009/EC.
Factsheet: Contribution to the EU public consultation on Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output (SAIO)
PAN Europe’s comments to the legislative proposal aiming at establishing Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output (SAIO)
Chlorpyrifos: EU should ban brain-harming chlorpyrifos to protect health (August 2018)
Sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone: neonics or not? How pesticide industry tricks regulators (14 September 2016)
This factsheet highlights how Dow and Bayer, the producers of sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone have been twisting science and inventing their own rules to have sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone not included in the neonicotinoids family. A way to through sand at the eyes of regulators.
Food Security and Agriculture
Food security depends very much on the number of people needing food, the level of consumption of people (especially animal diets), and the availability of (fertile) lands.
