December 3, 2018 is the 34th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. Today, Pesticide Action Network International pays tribute to the thousands of victims, whose struggle for justice continues. Here is the translation of our partner’s press release PAN EU. On No Pesticide Use Day, PAN International pays tribute to the victims of the Bhopal disaster… Read More

After the decree of 26 October 2018 of the Ministers of Environment, Solidarity and Health, Economy and Finance and Agriculture and Food, suspending the use of products containing the active substance “metam-sodium” until 31 January 2019, ANSES (the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) “closes” the file this 5 November by… Read More

Justice Pesticides’ partner, PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) has recently released the results of a seven-country study on the impact of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) on people’s health and the environment. The report’s launch coincided with the commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17. The study, called “Of Rights and… Read More

Octobre 22, 2018 – Following the exemplary trial and the historic verdict around Roundup, which ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in punitive and compensatory damages for failing to warn consumers that exposure to Roundup herbicides causes cancer, the company challenged the verdict and sent two motions to court in which it asked Judge Suzanne… Read More

On 13 September 2018, the first hearing in the Hautala and Others v. EFSA legal case (T-329/17) will take place in Luxembourg. Here is the press information submitted by the Verts/ALE Group of the European Parliament, which is at the origin of the complaint: PRESS INFO – Brussels, 09/10/2018 Transparency/Lawsuit against EFSA- Monsanto and Cheminova… Read More

August 10, 2018: The 12 jury members in the Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto trial unanimously ordered Monsanto to pay $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages for failing to warn consumers that exposure to Roundup herbicide causes cancer. Dewayne Johnson is a 46-year-old gardener with two children. He developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma… Read More