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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚜 Only one week left to raise our voice against the weakening of food safety rules 🐝🌿
Tell the @ec.europa.eu that you want better protection of health and biodiversity. This tool makes it easy to react to the EU consultation: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...

Ban toxic pesticides now

Tell the EU you want better protection against pesticides With this tool you can tell the EU Commission that you want better protection of health and environment. Their plan is to please the chemical ...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 1d

With @organicseurope.bsky.social & @global2000.bsky.social, we lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the @ec.europa.eu's reliance on the Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 (HRI1) to measure use and risk of #pesticides.
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Complaint to the European Ombudsman: EU Commission deceives citizens with flawed figures on pesticide reduction

Three NGOs, PAN Europe, IFOAM Organics Europe and Global 2000, lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the European Commission’s reliance on the Harmonised Risk Indicator 1 ...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 2d

👏 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more #pesticides that contain #PFAS active substances. They can form and leach #TFA into the groundwater. Pesticides approved for use in 🇩🇰 must not pose a risk to groundwater.
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Denmark bans more PFAS pesticides to protect groundwater

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more pesticides that contain PFAS active substances. They can form and leach TFA into the groundwater. Pesticides approved fo...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 5d

Rådet for Grøn Omstilling, in collaboration with us & Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, warmly invites you to join a conference on the occasion of Denmark’s EU Presidency.
🗓️ Thursday, 30/10/2025, 11:30 CET
📍 Proviantsalen, Christiansborg & online
👉 Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 6d

🌿🦋🐝💧🪱The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2027 should support farmers in the shift out of #pesticides.
👉 Read our reaction and key recommendations: www.pan-europe.info/resources/br...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 7d

The EU Pesticide Meeting’s somber agenda is overtaken by further delays of urgently-needed bans and extensions of the approval periods of several toxic substances. #PFAS #pesticides, endocrine disruptors, and reprotoxic substances are on the list.
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EU Pesticide Meeting: candidates for substitution are forever (chemicals)?

The European Commission and Member States are meeting on the 1 - 3 October this week. The SCoPAFF committee’s somber agenda is overtaken by further delays of urgently-needed bans and extensions of the...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 8d

🥕 Unhealthy diets are one of the biggest drivers of heart disease, and the way food is grown matters too. Thus, significantly reducing or phasing out #pesticides should be included in the effort to boost Europeans’ heart health.
👉 ✉️ www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 9d

5/5 💧📌
25 years after the first warnings, Europe must act: prevent further contamination, uphold the law, and protect public health and the right to safe water.

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 9d

4/5 🍷🍞
Meanwhile, #TFA has been quietly accumulating everywhere. Drinking water, groundwater, and food across Europe are widely contaminated. TFA, now the most common #PFAS in the environment by far, poses a planetary boundary threat.

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 9d

3/5 🚰🌊
Despite early warnings, EU authorities kept approving #PFAS #pesticides that break down into #TFA. Industry followed a familiar playbook: delay, distort, dismiss evidence of harm. Now, mounting evidence has led to a proposal to classify TFA as ‘toxic to reproduction’.

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 9d

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Our analysis of the industry studies submitted to the relevant EU Agencies & the @ec.europa.eu reveals compelling evidence of #TFA harm, including eye & skeletal malformations, immune system effects, thyroid hormone disruption, liver damage, & reduced sperm quality.

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 9d

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Our new report exposes how major chemical companies have downplayed the toxicity of #TFA to mislead regulators and delay urgently needed action. TFA is an ultra-short #PFAS and a breakdown product of other PFAS, including PFAS #pesticides.
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 11d

📢🇧🇪 Today, French and Belgian Health Mutuals are launching in front of the European Parliament an 'Odysseum for our Health' to mobilise health actors to advocate towards a #pesticide-free future.
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European Health Mutuals launch an Odysseum for a pesticide-free future

On 27 September, French and Belgian Health Mutuals are launching in front of the European Parliament an 'Odysseum for our Health' to mobilise health actors to advocate towards a pesticide-free future....

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 12d

🍷🍇 Living near a vineyard can have serious health consequences. According to a national study in France, people who live close to vineyards are more exposed to #pesticides than those who live farther away.
@generationsfutures.fr
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More pesticides exposure of people living close to vineyards, French study finds

Living near a vineyard can have serious health consequences. According to a national study in France, people who live close to vineyards are more exposed to pesticides than those who live farther away...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 13d

‘Return to Sender’ is a new campaign launched today by the European coalition ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ to hold the @ec.europa.eu accountable for letting the exports of banned, toxic #pesticides from the EU to the global South explode.
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 14d

All over Europe & beyond, drinking water is increasingly polluted with #TFA, the small, mobile, toxic & persistent #PFAS. To highlight the danger & problems, EurEau is organising an expert meeting. Our Policy Officer, Salomé Roynel, is one of the speakers.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/keep-us...

Keep us, our children and our water safe from TFA - some facts

The EU authorities are discussing water protection. You’d expect that they have an urgent priority on their plate – or in their glass. All over Europe and beyond, drinking water is increasingly pollut...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 14d

💧 While our water is polluted with #pesticides and residues like #TFA, the small omnipresent #PFAS, the EU lacks the leadership to act.

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 14d

🌊 The EU institutions have reached an agreement on water pollution. It has good elements, but action is delayed by EU red tape. Clean water will be for our children or grandchildren. Member States have until 2039 or even 2045 to meet the new criteria.
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EU deal on water pollution: no action, extreme delay

The EU institutions have reached a long-awaited deal on updated rules for pollution of EU surface and groundwater, but Member States have managed to delay and weaken obligations. Yesterday, nearly thr...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

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... Every delay is not just negligence; it is a betrayal of human & environmental rights. Urgent action is needed to end this unethical double standard," said Angeliki Lyssimachou from PAN Europe (the organisation that coordinates the End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition).

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

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"These exports include pesticides known to cause brain damage in children, reproductive harm & massive 🐝 losses. Local communities & ecosystems are paying the price, but also European farmers & consumers, as these pesticides return to Europe as residues in imported food...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

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As this new report by @publiceye.ch reveals, the @ec.europa.eu’s failure to act, due to pressure from the #pesticide industry giants and their profits, has allowed Europe’s toxic trade to grow larger than ever.
www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

Banned pesticides

The European Union exported nearly 122,000 tonnes of banned pesticides in 2024, despite a European Commission commitment to put an end to the practice, a new Public Eye and Unearthed investigation has...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

@corporateeurope.org @eeb.org @ecologistasenaccion.org @umwelthilfe.bsky.social @generationsfutures.fr @pannederland.bsky.social @pangermany.bsky.social @viapontica.bsky.social @healthandenv.bsky.social

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

💧📢 With 30 organisations we call for the protection of Europe’s citizens and water resources from the growing threat of trifluoroacetic acid (#TFA). This highly mobile, persistent and toxic #PFAS #pesticide is a threat to the environment.
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 15d

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 16d

We interviewed co-author Jessica Knapp from Lund University in Sweden. She delivers important input in the discussion on a new EU guideline to protect organisms that should not be harmed by #pesticides.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/improve...

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