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International study & report document pesticide health harms
Global network calls for immediate action to reduce pesticide hazards
Brussels, June 24, 2010 - Pesticide Action Network International (PAN) today released its report, Communities in Peril: Global report on the health impacts of pesticides used in agriculture. The report release coincided with the Brussels meeting of CropLife, the global trade association for multinational pesticide corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta. PAN's study documents that hazardous pesticides are commonly used in unsafe situations around the world, and calls for assertive action by corporations, governments and international bodies to address pesticide hazards. Press Release dated June 24th, 2010
Download (pdf-file, 3 MB) of the Report
PAN Germany: Further steps for the protection of consumers and biodiversity necessary
Vote on Biocide Regulation in the Environment Committee
On 22.6.2010 the European Parliament Committee for Environment voted on its first reading position for new EU provisions on the authorisation and marketing of hazardous products like wood preservatives and insecticide sprays. Pesticide Action Network Germany welcomes the outcome of the vote as it significantly improves the Commission's approach in view of several provisions, but urges the European Parliament to fill serious loopholes that are attended by the new proposed authorisation system. More
Toxic shock: European Parliament to expand harmful products in the home?
Hamburg, 21 June, 2010. On 22 June the European Parliament's Environment Committee will vote on new EU provisions on the authorisation and marketing of hazardous products like wood preservatives and insecticide sprays. But leading environmental and health campaign groups, Pesticide Action Network Germany, PAN Europe, and Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), fear that MEPs may lack the courage to ban all highly hazardous products, a move campaigners see as essential to protect consumers and the environment.Press Release dated June 21st, 2010
Progress in consumer protection
Maximum residue levels for pesticide residues are being lowered throughout Europe
From Monday, 7th June 2010, more than one thousand maximum residue levels (MRLs) for pesticides in food will be tightened. After years of struggling with the competent authorities, this is an important step for better protection of consumers, as environmental organisations Pesticide Action Network (PAN Germany) and Greenpeace point out. more
25 April - World Malaria Day - Malaria controls that work
Every day, children are still dying of malaria - a devastating disease that is both preventable and curable. To mark World Malaria Day this April 25th, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International is calling on public health experts, national malaria control officials and health aid funders to adopt all available effective, safe and sustainable malaria control measures. Press-Release, dated April 19th, 2010
Malaria control without DDT More
Biocides - Risks and Alternatives
The European Parliament and Environment Council are currently considering a biocide regulation, which will revise current provisions for authorisation of products which tackle harmful or unwanted organisms outside agriculture. To coincide with this process PAN Germany has compiled a briefing.More
EU attempts to fast-track marketing of harmful biocides
PAN Germany and PAN Europe are concerned about recent legal initiatives surrounding authorisation of biocidal products in Europe. If proposals by conservative Members of the European Parliament receive major support in the European Parliament, a large number of highly hazardous insecticides can easily enter the European market.
Press Release dated February 23rd, 2010Environmental NGOs urge EU ministers to improve biocide laws to protect environment
With the Environment Council meeting in Brussels on 22 December 2009, thirteen European environment, nature and consumer protection NGOs underline their key demands affecting revision of EU biocide legislation.
Press Briefing dated December 22nd, 2009Background information:
Key NGO demands concening revision of biocides legislation, 16 December 2009
Position and recommendations by PAN Germany concerning the Commission's draft biocide regulation, 26 November 2009
New ways to fight malaria
The PAN Germany study "Environmental strategies to replace DDT and control malaria" contains examples of successful projects applying methods and approaches to malaria control which pose a lower risk. PAN Germany calls on politicians and financiers of malaria control programmes to promote pesticide-free measures to a greater extent. Presse-Release, dated December 1st, 2009
PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides
What are "highly hazardous pesticides"? Here you can ´download the 'PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides' as well as an attachment showing the different classifications of the Highly Hazardous Pesticides listed by PAN International.Some background information:
November 2006 the FAO Council suggested "that the activities of FAO could include risk reduction, including the progressive ban on highly hazardous pesticides". More
October 2008 the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM) defined highly hazardous pesticides as having specific characteristics. More
National Action Plan towards the Sustainable Use of Pesticides:
Objectives for improved nature conservation as well as protection of the environment and consumers
Common position of the Pesticide Action Network Germany (PAN Germany), Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) and Greenpeace Germany on the implementation of the EU Framework Directive on the sustainable use of pesticides and the national action plan Download (197 kb)
Phasing in Alternatives to DDT
The PAN leaflet "Phasing in alternatives to DDT" gives an overview of the environmental and health problems related to the use of DDT, it informs about the global production, use and stocks of DDT and it informs about the international legislation. The main focus is laid on the description of existing alternatives to DDT. Examples are given from Asia, Africa and Latin America where successful vector control had been carried out without DDT. Download (pdf-file, 612 kb)
Phasing in Alternatives to Endosulfan
Endosulfan is an organochlorine insecticide that is used to control a wide
range of sucking and chewing insects. It is very dangerous for humans and
for the environment and causes harm all over the world. This leaflet
provides information about existing alternatives to endosulfan use. The
given examples from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe of successful
production without endosulfan give daily proof that practical alternatives
to endosulfan exist and are technically and economically feasible.Phasing in alternatives to endosulfan
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Introducir gradualmente Alternativas al Endosulfán
Download (Spanish Version) (pdf-file, 652 kb)
Introduction progressive d’alternatives à l’endosulfan
Download (French Version) (pdf-file, 657 kb)
Field Guide to Non-chemical Pest Management in Peanut Production
PAN Germany has published the eleventh field guide in a series on non-chemical pest management in the tropics. These (apart from two) crop specific field guides focus on just one crop and deal with all relevant information on how to manage agricultural pests (e.g. insects, mites, diseases) without using chemical pesticides.
Download (547 kb)Further Field Guides
Food crops grown by organic cotton farmers in West Africa
The following fact sheets on our topic can be downloaded:Ibisco, anacardio e cotone - cosa li accomuna? download (Italian language) (518 kb)
Fonio English (3 MB), Italian (3,1 MB)
Bissap English (2,7 MB), Italian (2,7 MB)
Sesame English (2,5 MB), Italian (2,5 MB)
Cashew English (1,1 MB), Italian (1,1 MB)
Fibre, Food and Beauty Project at SANA Fair 2009
PAN Germany together with OBEPAB and Enda Pronat presented the Fibre, Food and Beauty Project at the business and consumer fair SANA in Bologna, Italy.
This film gives some impressions on our presentation. The music is a present of the Senegalse musician Ismail Lo to the Yakaar Niani Wulli farmers federation to honour their great work.
"For the Consideration of Biodiversity in Plant Protection Legislation"
Pesticides allow the type of agriculture that contributes to the loss of biological diversity. Special attention must therefore be paid to coherency between biodiversity protection and pesticide legislation. The PAN Germany brochure tackles this area of conflict and calls for the implementation of concrete targets for and measures on the use of pesticides in order to improve biodiversity protection within conventional agriculture in Europe.Download (pdf-file, 669 kb)
Diversity without pesticides!
More and more species disappear. They loose their habitats or they are affected directely. For example though pesticides. Although pests can be controlled without chemicals. The film shows what frog, bird, flower and worm think of it.
Or start the film directly on our website
"No food, no home, no partner?"
The fact sheet "No food, no home, no partner? What is left when biodiversity
disappears?" informs about the negative impact of pesticides on biodiversity
with a special focus on amphibians.Download (pdf-file, 116 kb)
Target group specific leaflets for the implementation of the Code of Conduct
- Pesticide Industry download English version, Russian version
- Public Interest Groups download English version, Russian version
- Goverments download English version, Russian version
- Farmers download English version, Russian version
- Food Industry download English version, Russian version
Main Issues on the Further Development of the EC Biocidal Products Directive from the Point of View of German Environmental, Consumer and Animal Welfare Organisations
PositionpaperThe undersigning non-governmental organisations (NGOs) call upon the ministries, authorities, members of parliament and economic organisations involved in the further development of the Council Directive 98/8/EC concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market to commit themselves to prioritised, preventative health and environmental protection. The NGOs call for compliance with the legal framework on biodiversity and animal welfare, for more transparency, and for an EU-wide binding strategy for a step-by-step termination or, as the case may be, reduction of the use of hazardous biocides and biocidal products.
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Alternatives to synthetic pesticides in agriculture
Position paper from the PAN International working group on AlternativesThis PAN International position paper came out from the PAN working group on Alternatives and was collectively developed by the PAN Regional Centres and their partners. This paper provides PAN’s views and analysis on alternatives to synthetic pesticides in agriculture, proposes solution and presents the network’s commitment to resolve the issue.
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