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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.

Essential to the production of key EU food crops, yet in sudden decline. What links pesticides and mass bee deaths occurring globally?

Independent literature shows that the pesticide Carbendazim is a very dangerous "toxin", capable of causing malformations in the foetus at very low doses and it's still uncertain if a safe level exists at all.

Agriculture is a big contributor to climate change. According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Fourth Assessment Report, 2007) this accounts to 10-12% on all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Endosulfan is one of the world’s worst pesticides and has devastating impacts on human health and the global environment.

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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.

Latest information on the widespread presence of pesticides in food items sold in the European Union.