Newsletters

May Newsletter 2025

  • Message from the bottle 
  • Call to Bayer shareholders: Stop the attack on health and environment 
  • Entomologist Theo Zeegers: A world without bumblebees?
  • A weak deal for Europe’s soils 

April Newsletter 2025

  • Pesticides threaten the bulk of life on Earth - Prof. Dave Goulson
  • No insect expert in EFSA working group on new guideline
  • Dangerous pesticides sold to the general public in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Scientists rally for immediate action against 'forever chemicals'

March 2025 Newsletter

  • A cocktail of pesticides eradicates biodiversity
  • Save our Brain campaign
  • EU SCoPAFF meeting: the end of PFAS pesticides? 
  • EU ban on imported food with hazardous pesticides
  • Heavy pesticide exposure poses similar cancer risk as smoking 

February 2024 Newsletter

  • PAN successfully challenges pesticide product authorisation
  • The EU road to phase out pesticides and build sustainable food systems
  • Toxic endive recalled by supermarkets in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Toxic industry lobby tries to block PFAS restrictions

December 2024 Newsletter

  • Glyphosate approval is brought to the European Court of Justice
  • Licence to Kill: EU guideline to protect insects failed
  • Forever Chemical TFA Found Even in Pristine Mineral Waters
  • Neurotoxic pesticides affect children’s brain
  • EU Commission Proposes Ban of PFAS pesticide Flufenacet

November 2024 Newsletter

  • We call for an emergency ban on Flufenacet
  • TFA is polluting our water – We have crossed a Planetary boundary 
  • The EU drags its feet on addressing water pollution 
  • Reinstate pesticides in policies - 260,000 EU citizens demand it

October 2024 Newsletter

  • Double standards, double risk: Banned pesticides in Europe’s food
  • How to Reduce Pesticide Dependency in Europe 
  • We need better protection of citizens health and biodiversity against pesticides 
  • 'Don’t worry, you will not be exposed to this harmful pesticide' 

September 2024 Newsletter

  • Legal opinion: TFA emitting PFAS pesticides must be banned now
  • European Parliament blocks residues of hazardous pesticides in imported food 
  • Prioritise substitution of most toxic pesticides 
  • Pesticide industry objects to disclosing secret pesticide ingredients

August Newsletter 2024

  • EU-Wide Drinking Water Testing Finds TFA in 94 % of Samples 
  • EU Commission spreads unscientific information
  • Brussels the first region to ban synthetic pesticides in agriculture
  • The effects of EU-produced pesticides in other continents 
  • EU Commission continues the use of dangerous pesticides

July Newsletter 2024

  • Historical step: EU Nature Restoration Law finally adopted 
  • EU Commission will uphold glyphosate re-approval, NGOs go to court 
  • The end of FAO’s Toxic Alliance with the pesticide industry
  • Hungarian city of Törökbálint joins the Pesticide Free Towns Network

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