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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe)
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🐝🌱🐞 We fight for a pesticide-free world. The primitive toxic era comes to an end. Sustainable agriculture can feed the world, with happy and healthy farmers and citizens. With biodiversity, clean water, healthy soil and good food.
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🌹 Rose for Valentine’s Day? A beautiful gesture, but what’s in the flowers? Your gift might be dangerous and toxic. There are no limits for #pesticides on flowers. Many contain dangerous and EU-banned substances. Go for organic flowers or chocolate.
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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#WorldPulsesDay 🫘🍲🌱🥜
Did you know that pulses (such as beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas) are not only delicious and nutritious, but they also keep our soils healthy? These crops improve soil health, increase biodiversity, and enhance farming resilience.
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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We invite you to join the webinar "PFAS pesticides: Threatening health and the environment".
📅​24 February 2026 at 14:00 CET
📍​European Parliament & Online​
👉 Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Analysis by @generationsfutures.fr shows that 49 synthetic #pesticides would receive unlimited approval if the Commission’s omnibus proposal enters into force on 1 January 2027. The list includes toxic & widely used substances such as #glyphosate & acetamiprid.
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Pesticide Action Network raises alarm over 49 pesticides facing unlimited approval in EU ‘omnibus’ proposal
Analysis by Générations Futures, a member of the PAN Europe network, shows that 49 synthetic pesticides would receive unlimited approval if the Commission’s omnibus proposal enters into force on 1 Jan...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Did you know heavy #pesticide exposure can raise cancer risk as much as smoking? On this #WorldCancerDay, the Commission will probably highlight the Beat Cancer Plan - an initiative designed to fight against the illness from prevention to early detection.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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In collaboration with the CII, we invite you to join the webinar “Preventing Pesticide Effects on Children’s Health and Protecting the Environment”.
📅​ 19 February 2026 at 08:30 (GMT+2)
📍​ University of Cyprus & Online​
👉​ Register here: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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We analysed #pesticide residues in apples in 13 European countries. The result: conventional apples are contaminated with a cocktail of pesticides (85%). It shows that the current pesticide authorisation needs to be improved, not demolished.
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January 29, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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🔥 The Omnibus proposal frames unlimited approval as administrative simplification. In reality, it removes a fundamental public health & environmental protection mechanism.
📢 We urge the @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu to oppose and reject this proposal: www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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🚨 Today, we published our analysis of the @ec.europa.eu's proposal for a Food and Feed Safety Omnibus. Our conclusion is clear: this proposal seriously weakens EU #pesticide rules, which are designed to protect human health and the environment.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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The @ec.europa.eu's planned abolition of #pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today.
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Weakening of pesticide protection standards is unlawful - Legal opinion criticises draft EU legislation
The European Commission's planned abolition of pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today. The legal opinion, commissioned by the Aurelia Foundation, ...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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EU-banned #pesticides are banned for a reason: they harm health and the environment. Yet the @ec.europa.eu confirms:

• exports continue
• zero MRLs are not in place
• action is still “being explored”

www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
January 22, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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On 5 January 2026, France suspended imports of food containing residues of five #pesticides banned in the EU due to serious health effects. Now the EU must follow.
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of a dear friend and ally. Arnaud Apoteker, a rigorous scientist and tireless anti-GMO and pesticide activist, passed away last Friday, 9th January.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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🇨🇾📩 Scientists, PAN Europe, the Laona Foundation and Friends of the Earth Cyprus ask the Cypriot ministers to prioritise #pesticide issues affecting public health, water resources and the environment.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/call-cy...
January 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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🦋✨ Meet the peacock butterfly, a living jewel with a secret weapon. Its eye-like wing patterns scare off predators by mimicking the eyes of larger animals. However, harmful #pesticides threaten these winged wonders 🌍🌿
#SaveOurInsects
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January 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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📈 Together with @organicseurope.bsky.social and @global2000.bsky.social, we lodged a formal complaint before the European Ombudsman concerning the Commission @ec.europa.eu 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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January 5, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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🧑‍🌾 The EU Commission promised a law to stop the export of #pesticides banned in Europe. Exports are on the rise. The ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ launched the ‘Return to Sender” campaign to hold the European Commission to account.
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Return to Sender: toxic EU trade in banned pesticides should end
‘Return to Sender’ is a new campaign launched today by the European coalition ‘End Toxic Pesticide Trade Coalition’ (1)  to hold the European Commission to account for letting the exports of banned, t...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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🎆 PAN Europe wishes you a very good pesticide-free year!
December 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🐞 In the ‘State of the Union’ to the Parliament, EU President Ursula von der Leyen preaches deregulation to please the industry. We urge the EU to take care of European's health and biodiversity instead of placing corporate profits above people and nature.
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State of the Union: weakening pesticide rules despite damage to health and environmental collapse
In the ‘State of the Union’ to the Parliament, EU President Von der Leyen preaches deregulation to please the industry. The EU should take care of European's health instead of backtracking on environm...
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December 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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🥤 The German Environmental Aid asked the German authorities to revoke the authorisation of the pesticide products Banjo, Brodal and Luna Experience. The products contain #PFAS #pesticides that break down to #TFA, which can be toxic to reproduction.

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Deutsche Umwelthilfe takes legal action against three TFA forming pesticide products
The German Environmental Aid (DUH) has asked the German authorities to revoke the authorisation of the pesticide products Banjo, Brodal and Luna Experience. The products contain PFAS pesticides that b...
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December 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🧑‍⚖️ The Dutch Ctgb ignores rulings by the European Court of Justice. The agency decided to extend the authorisation of the #pesticides Dagonis and Pitcher. We have lodged an appeal against the decisions.

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CTGB gaat opnieuw grof de fout in bij beoordeling pesticiden
Het CTGB negeert arresten van het Europees Hof van Justitie, uitspraken van het College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven en recente inzichten van de Europese voedselautoriteit EFSA. De instantie besl...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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🌲 PAN Europe wishes you a very nice pesticide-free Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🌱 The EU has banned the #PFAS #pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater. Yet, it will continue to be used on Europe’s crop fields for up to 18 months, according to the official EU decision.
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PAN Europe and DUH object to 18 month ‘grace’ period for Flufenacet - Banned for its toxicity to children’s development and water pollution
The EU has banned the PFAS pesticide flufenacet because it’s harmful to human health and contaminates groundwater with its breakdown PFAS product, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a smaller but still toxic...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🧑‍⚖️ The @EU_Commission is dragging its feet to act on #PFAS #pesticides. We have taken the first legal steps to remind the Commission that they have to meet the legal obligations under EU law to protect groundwater and public health.
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PAN Europe demands EU Commission to act on PFAS pesticides
PAN Europe is calling out the European Commission for its inaction on PFAS pesticides. These substances break down into trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent, mobile and toxic degradation pr...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🎄 In many countries, people decorate their houses with Christmas trees. Cosy for happy family and friends meetings. But did you ever consider to look for a #pesticide-free tree?

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We wish you a pesticide free Christmas
In many countries, people decorate their houses with Christmas trees. Cosy for happy family and friends meetings. We hope you’re one of the lucky people who can enjoy this. But did you ever consider t...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM