Pesticide-Checkup! Test the pesticides in your hair! June 16, 2022 The association Good Food Good Farming (GFGF) invites European citizens to participate in a European participatory science action, Pesticide-Checkup! Until June 30, 2022, it is proposed to all those who want to request a hair test, conducted by an independent French laboratory, which will seek to detect the presence of residues of 30 pesticides in… Read More
CIEL: Microplastics in agrochemicals June 13, 2022 Agriculture is widely contaminated by plastic pollution, notably by the presence of plastics in greenhouse films or in product packaging. Beyond this already well-known pollution, our partner CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law) denounces a new source of plastic pollution in its report Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils,… Read More
Justice Pesticides Newsletter N°8 June 1, 2022 For its eighth newsletter, Justice Pesticides looks back at the news of the last few months related to pesticides. The consequences of these toxic products affect every country in the world, and the information in this newsletter includes Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Spain and the United States. We hope you find this information interesting… Read More
EU: A new campaign from PAN-EU denounces the increasing presence of 55 most harmful pesticides on the EU market May 24, 2022 Our partner PAN-EU (Pesticide Action Network Europe) is launching a new campaign to denounce the increasing presence of 55 highly harmful pesticides still on the European market, calling for an immediate ban on twelve of the most harmful pesticides and the total elimination of all 55 highly hazardous pesticides by 2030. In 2009, Regulation (EC)… Read More
A call to march against Monsanto-Bayer everywhere in France May 19, 2022 On Saturday, May 21, 2022, for the 10th consecutive year, thousands of people will mobilise to denounce the current agrochemical industrial system and its disastrous consequences on human and environmental health in France and everywhere in the world. On Saturday, come and march to defend: biodiversity agroecology and family farming synthetic pesticides and GMO-free agriculture … Read More
European Union: Detoxification in progress April 25, 2022 The European Commission published on April 25 its roadmap on the restriction of harmful chemicals, envisaged under the REACH regulation (1907/2006) on the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals. The European environmental protection organization, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), believes that if it is effectively implemented, the EU roadmap could lead to banning 5,000 to… Read More