“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

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

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

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

April 11, 2019: Today, the Court of Appeals of Lyon has again said that Monsanto is responsible for Paul François‘ illnesses after having been intoxicated with Lasso herbicides. Paul François is the chair of the French NGO Phyto-Victimes and a board member of Justice Pesticides. We are very pleased of this 3rd court decision that… Read More

March 27, 2019, San Francisco, a six-person jury awarded more than $80 million in damages to Edwin Hardeman, a Californian landscaper who suffers from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Roundup for years, in the case Hardeman v. Monsanto. This is the second time Monsanto has been sentenced to millions of dollars in damages because its flagship… Read More