EU Tour on EDCs

EU Tour on EDCs aims to raise awareness across EU and calling Member States to take action.

On June 15 2016 the EU Commission proposed a set of ‘scandalous’ criteria to identify endocrine disrupting pesticides and biocides that in effect will fail to ban any such chemicals, leaving Europeans unprotected. Pesticides that are endocrine disruptors (EDs or EDCs for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) are currently being sprayed on the European fields and may be the cause of a wide range of endocrine-related diseases that have been observed in farmers, their children, residents, bystanders and consumers. Read more here.

Check PAN Europe's position and the latest information on the EDCs here.

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