Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe)

Denmark bans more PFAS pesticides to protect groundwater The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more pesticides that contain PFAS active substances.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...

👏 The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the approval of 8 more #pesticides that contain #PFAS active substances.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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...

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...

🌿🦋🐝💧🪱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...

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...

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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/eu-pest...

🥕 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...

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

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....

📢🇧🇪 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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/europea...

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...

🍷🍇 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
www.pan-europe.info/blog/more-pe...

‘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.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

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...

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...

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

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...

🌊 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.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

3/3
... 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).

2/3
"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...

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...

1/3 🧵
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...

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

💧📢 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...

@planbee.bsky.social

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...

3/3 🦋
“Our results question the sustainability of current pesticide use and support the need for enhanced risk assessments to reduce risks to biodiversity and ecosystems.”

2/3 🪲
“Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and may be linked to global biodiversity loss. The magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood.”

Pesticides found widely toxic to non-target organisms in low concentrations A 2025 meta-analysis of 1,705 studies confirms that pesticides are widely toxic to many non-target organisms. “Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and may be linked to global biodi...

1/3 🧵🐞
A 2025 meta-analysis of 1,705 studies confirms that #pesticides are widely toxic to many non-target organisms. @davegoulson.bsky.social
www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...

💧 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.
www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...

💧 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.
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

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...

🇪🇺 Deregulation? Reduced administrative burden? That will be the message EU President Ursula von der Leyen is trying to sell today. But beware! It could very well mean less protection for health, social security and the environment.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/state-u...

🚨 Ctgb negeert rechterlijke uitspraken & wetenschappelijke waarschuwingen 🚨Toelating Dagonis & Pitcher verlengd ondanks bewezen risico’s voor mens & milieu. PAN NL stelt opnieuw beroep in. Lees meer 👉 www.pan-netherlands.org/blog/2025/09...

#StopSchadelijkePesticiden #Ctgb