The EU has banned the use of a number of pesticides found to do serious damage to human health and the environment.
However, companies remain free to manufacture these hazardous pesticides in the EU for export to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU also allows the import of food and agricultural goods grown with pesticides banned on its own fields, exposing European consumers to cocktails of dangerous residues and creating unfair competition for European farmers.
Over the past years EU institutions have all recognized that there is a double standard here which is problematic and should end. If the EU bans the use of certain pesticides because they are proven to be too dangerous for Europeans, it should not allow companies to keep manufacturing them for export, nor should it accept the import of food produced and contaminated with these substances.
Continue reading in EN, FR, SP, GR, PT, NL, IT or DK (list of supporters).
