Letter to the French Minister of Agriculture in support of the non-renewal of Mancozeb fungicide July 10, 2020 10 July 2020 : Justice Pesticides and 6 NGOs write to Mr. Julien Denormandie, the new French Minister of Agriculture, to ask that he supports the EC proposal not to renew toxic fungicide Mancozeb at a meeting of EU governments’ representatives on July 16. Here is an unofficial translation of the letter. Update July 30:… Read More
Bayer settles U.S. Roundup, dicamba and PCB litigation for more than $10 billion June 24, 2020 A break through in Roundup litigations. See Carey Gillam’s blog for our partner USRTK. Carey is also a Justice Pesticides Board member. In an expensive clean-up of Monsanto litigation messes, Bayer AG said Wednesday that it will pay out more than $10 billion to settle tens of thousands of U.S. claims brought against Monsanto over… Read More
New academic paper condemns pesticide risk assessment practices ahead of Farm to Fork Strategy and REFIT April 21, 2020 “Green recovery” from COVID-19 crisis demands healthy and sustainable food system A new peer-reviewed paper authored by a group of experts in law, policy, and toxicology has identified systemic failings in Europe’s pesticide risk assessment process. Here is our partner PAN-EU‘s press release: The experts have proposed a comprehensive agenda for far-reaching reform after their paper outlined… Read More
Fraud scandal in a EU accredited German laboratory involved in risk assessment of pesticides March 4, 2020 The EU coalition Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation, of which Justice Pesticides is a member, has today written a letter to Health EU Commissioner Stella Kyriakides about our concerns following the discovery that that the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) Hamburg was found to have committed fraud in a series of regulatory safety… Read More
Huge Europe-wide campaign launches to ban pesticides, transform agriculture and save bees and nature November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 : A European Citizens’ Initiative launches today to phase out synthetic pesticides by 2035, support farmers, and save bees and nature. If it gathers one million signatures by September 2020, the EU Commission and Parliament must consider turning the campaign’s demands into law. [1] 90 organisations from 17 EU countries, including Justice… Read More
Noël POULIQUEN : The Court acknowledges Triskalia’s inexcusable fault November 6, 2019 Following Noël Pouliquen’s victory at the TGI in Vannes, we reproduce here the press release from our partner Collectif de Soutien aux Victimes des Pesticides de l’Ouest with Union Régionale Solidaires de Bretagne : In a judgment handed down today, Wednesday November 6, 2019, the social section of the Court of Vannes recognised the inexcusable… Read More