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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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Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the European Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court.

We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🐛✨ Meet tachypodoiulus niger – the millipede that keeps soil healthy! 🌿🌍
This millipede helps decompose dead plants by recycling nutrients into the soil. But the use of harmful #pesticides threatens these essential recyclers.
#SaveOurInsects
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November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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🪱🌱🥕 Ahead of the plenary vote, we urge MEPs to officially endorse the law. Given the dire state of our soils, an EU policy framework as common ground to protect them is urgently needed. Healthy, living soils are the basis of all life.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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#Soils host an immense amount of biodiversity 🪱🐝 and functions 💧🥕🌱. They are the basis of all life, and essential to our well-being. As they are degrading fast, due to #pesticide pollution and many other impacts, an #EUSoilLaw is long overdue.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Today, with @natprobe.bsky.social & @bblv.be, we have an important hearing in the Belgian Council of State: we ask them to put a stop to the recurrent practice of authorising #pesticides in leaky tunnels, while EU law imposes hermetic greenhouses to prevent any contact with the environment.
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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PAN Europe calls on the @ec.europa.eu to use the “Food and feed safety – simplification omnibus” initiative not to weaken or delay existing protections, but to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of the EU #pesticide legislation.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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📢📨 Three letters. One message.
We wrote to the @ec.europa.eu, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu & @eu2025dk.bsky.social asking them to stop exporting #pesticides banned in the EU.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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...
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🌿🦋🐝💧🪱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...
October 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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🥕 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.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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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’.
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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2/5 🔍📄
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.
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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1/5 🧵🚨
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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September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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💧📢 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.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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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.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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💧 A group of over 600 scientists is calling on the European Union to update its water pollution standards to address the increasing threat of chemical pollution -such as #TFA, the tiny #PFAS #pesticides- in Europe’s water.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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💧 Most present #PFAS in our environment remains unregulated under EU water law. PAN Europe asks for urgent action by the EU to include #TFA in water regulation.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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📨 Our September Newsletter is out! 🌿
We took the first legal step to urge the EU Commission to act on #PFAS #pesticides. Denmark made a good first step by banning 23 PFAS pesticide products. And much more!
Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter: www.pan-europe.info/subscribe-ou...
September 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🍷 New data revealed a dramatic rise in levels of the forever chemical #TFA. We analysed wine from 10 EU countries. Since 1988, TFA has risen sharply. Why? F-gases and especially the use of #PFAS #pesticides.
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August 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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🦠🌱 Meet the springtail, the tiny but mighty creature that keeps our soil alive by breaking down organic matter and recycling nutrients. Yet #pesticides threaten their populations. We need stronger EU pesticide guidelines to protect them.
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August 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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💧We ask for a ban on #PFAS #pesticides & other sources of #TFA by:
1⃣ Putting an end to pollution at the source
2⃣ Defining & adopting precautionary health-based values
3⃣ Monitoring exposure levels
4⃣ Applying the Polluter Pays Principle
Full position paper ➡️ www.pan-europe.info/resources/br...
July 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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💧EU Water is polluted with #PFAS like #TFA and #pesticides: Time to Act💧
Today, EU representatives should have agreed on updated water pollution standards. But negotiations have once again been postponed till September.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🐝🪲 Bees and bugs are in danger. Europe needs to strengthen the protection of biodiversity against #pesticides urgently 🦗🕷️
Join the livestream on Tuesday 15th at 12:00 CET: www.pan-europe.info/events/confe...
July 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM