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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.
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...
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We do encourage people to eat fruit, but they have the right to healthy food, not contaminated food. This report contains recommendations for citizens to better protect themselves and for decision makers on legislative & agronomic tools to reduce pesticides.
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Our findings show that over 90% of the tested European conventional apples could not be fed to babies if they were processed food. Parents are usually not aware that pesticide residue limits for processed baby food are much stricter than those for fresh products.
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Most individual pesticide residues remain within the current maximum residue limit (MRL). But still, the findings are highly concerning. A diversity of substances was found, and a majority of apples contain a cocktail of pesticides.
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Apple production is one of the biggest consumers of pesticides. On average, apples are sprayed 30 times before reaching the shop. Apples represent an important source of pesticide exposure for consumers.
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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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🔥 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...
🚨 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.
www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...
The @ec.europa.eu's planned abolition of #pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu @gerbrandy.bsky.social @sigridfriis.bsky.social @martinhojsik.bsky.social
22.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This means exposure to non-EU citizens, environmental damage in third countries, and EU-banned chemicals on our plates through imports. Calling on the EU @ec.europa.eu to stick to its promises.
22.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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...
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This is a first step toward ending double standards but we want more: any substance too toxic for use in Europe should not come back on our plates via imports.
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PAN Europe, with @institut-veblen.bsky.social & @foodwatch-int.bsky.social, has written to the @ec.europa.eu and Member States calling for this measure to be extended across the entire EU.
Read our letter: www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...
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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.
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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/farewel...
🇨🇾📩 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...
🦋✨ 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
www.pan-europe.info/campaigns/pr...
📈 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
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
🧑🌾 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.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
🎆 PAN Europe wishes you a very good pesticide-free year!
31.12.2025 07:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐞 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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/state-u...
🥤 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.
www.pan-europe.info/blog/deutsch...
🧑⚖️ 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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🌲 PAN Europe wishes you a very nice pesticide-free Christmas!
25.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌱 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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🧑⚖️ 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.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
🎄 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?
www.pan-europe.info/blog/we-wish...
Major victory 🥳Today, the Court of Justice of the EU concluded that the @ec.europa.eu acted unlawfully by re-approving toxic insecticide cypermethrin in 2021, with major gaps in the reapproval dossier. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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The @ec.europa.eu confirms its plan for open-ended approvals of certain #pesticides, ignoring scientists and society. It's a weak move in the wrong direction. We need real steps out of the toxic era towards a productive, healthy and biodiverse future.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
