October 17, 2023, Brussels – The European Commission has decided to postpone the revision of the REACh regulation. The Commission’s work programme for the year 2024, published on October 17, no longer includes this revision. The REACh regulation (acronym for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) regulates the management and evaluation of chemical substances in… Read More

United States, 27 July 2023 – The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a database listing all incidents over the past ten years in which individuals have suffered or witnessed harm to human health or the environment resulting from the use of or exposure to pesticides. The database, which is updated every month, contains… Read More

Dear readers, While two court hearings began in the USA(1) and Australia(2) in September, opposing Monsanto to hundreds of people who, according to their allegations, developed cancer of the lymphatic system following exposure to and/or use of glyphosate-based products manufactured by the company, the member states of the European Union will vote on October 13… Read More

Bonn, September 30, 2023 – At the close of the 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management, held from September 25 to 29, 2023, the States Parties to the Conference adopted a new guidance document for chemicals management, which includes highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs). Entitled “Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm… Read More

Bonn, September 25, 2023 – The fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management will take place from 25 to 29 September 2023. Government representatives, industrialists, non-governmental organizations, as well as members of the inter-organisation chemicals management programme will meet in Bonn, Germany. Initially scheduled for 2020, and postponed to September 2023 following the Covid-19 pandemic, the… Read More

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Switzerland, USA, United Kindom – 09/21/2023. We are lawyers who defend nature and pesticide victims around the world. As such, we are aware of the deleterious effects of pesticide use on all living beings and the environment. We have therefore pleaded for a ban on… Read More