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PAN UK is supporting the Pesticide Collaboration on their new campaign calling for a national ban on pesticide use in urban spaces. After diet, pesticide use in our villages, towns and cities is the second most common route through which people are exposed to these chemicals. The most commonly used [...]
Recent results from the UK Government’s testing programme have exposed a dramatic increase in the proportion of wine that contains multiple pesticide residues – from 14% in 2016 (the last time that wine was tested) to 50% in 2022. The official data – which has been collated and analysed by [...]
Pesticide-Free Paris: Cemeteries The Ville de Paris (the city’s maintenance service) manages 14 cemeteries in the French capital, a total of 420 hectares of land, each one with its own set of varied needs. Every cemetery has an adapted weed management plan which varies depending on terrain, [...]
‘Highly toxic to bees’ – This classification is assigned if the LD50 (lethal dose 50%) for acute and dermal absorption by honey bees is lower than 2 micrograms per bee (μg/bee). The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested [...]
While voluntary and stewardship approaches may work in other areas, they have repeatedly proven to be ineffective at reducing pesticide-related harms to either human health or the environment for a number of key reasons, including: Hazard vs. risk-based approaches – Arguably the most fundamental problem with voluntary and/or stewardship approaches [...]
Pesticides used in veterinary medicines for dogs and cats are leaching into the natural environment. New analysis launched today reveals that five chemicals deemed to be too environmentally-damaging to be used as pesticides on crops are still being routinely included in pet medicines. Pointing out the inconsistency of this [...]
Pesticides in veterinary medicines The majority of pets are intentionally exposed to pesticides via parasiticides. Parasiticides are veterinary medicines which are used to kill parasites, primarily ticks, fleas, lice and worms. According to the UK government’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), there are 1,334 parasiticide products approved for use [...]
Pets and pesticide poisoning The UK is home to roughly 10 million dogs, 11 million cats and 1 million pet rabbits. More than half of UK adults have at least one pet, and the vast majority take the health of their animals very seriously, collectively spending billions of pounds [...]
36 pesticides permitted for use in UK but not EU, despite government promises to maintain standards post-Brexit The UK is increasingly falling behind the EU in removing chemicals that pose a risk to human health and the environment from the market. Analysis has revealed that there are now 36 pesticides [...]
Today, 11 global civil society and Indigenous Peoples organisations representing small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, and rights holders urged Mr. Qu Dongyu to begin his new term as Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a positive note by ending a controversial partnership with the [...]
