PAN in the Media (2014-2018)
A selection of our press releases and stories in the media.
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Media: 12th December 2018
Food Safety News: UK unprepared to regulate pesticides after Brexit
Media: 5th December 2018
Farming UK: UK ‘woefully unprepared’ to regulate pesticides after Brexit
Media: 28th October 2018
Daily Mail: Nine out of ten UK councils STILL uses weed killer feared to be carcinogenic
Media: 11th October 2018
Camden New Journal: Camden to continue using glyphosate weedkiller
Media: 1st October 2018
LUSH Soapbox: I live in a pesticide-free town
Media: 22nd September 2018
Portsmouth News: Pesticides harm wildlife
Media: 3rd September 2018
Independent: Dangerous industrial-strength pesticides being marketed to amateurs online
Media: 2nd September 2018
Unearthed: Industrial-strength weedkillers marketed to amateurs on eBay
Media: 27th August 2018
Mongabay: Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma
Media: 14th August 2018
BBC London Evening News: Should glyphosate be banned in London?
Media: 13th August 2018
BBC News with Victoria Derbyshire: Should some weedkillers be banned?
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Media: 11th August 2018
ITV News: Maker of Roundup weedkiller forced into huge payout over health risks
Media: 23rd July 2018
HAM & HIGH: Campaigners call for Camden Council to ditch controversial weedkiller
Media: 7th June 2018
THE GUARDIAN: Pesticide use in the UK’s intensive agriculture
Media: 9th May 2018
HORTICULTURE WEEK: Anti-pesticide councillors elected to London boroughs
Media: 22nd May 2018
Talk Radio Europe: Nick Mole discusses the problems associated with pesticides with Bill Padley
Media: 9th May 2018
THE ENDS REPORT: Public pesticide ban gaining support on London borough councils
Media: 1st May 2018
LYST: Let’s talk about sustainability
Press Release: 30th April 2018
PAN INTERNATIONAL: Global network responds to UN Symposium on Soil Pollution
Media: 27th April 2018
THE GUARDIAN: EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides
Media: 24th April 2018
LUSH TIMES: Farming organic cotton without the need for pesticides
Media: 17th April 2018
ENFIELD INDEPENDENT: Campaign launched to ban toxic pesticides in London
Media: 17th April 2018
TIMES SERIES: Campaign launched to ban toxic pesticides in London
Press Release: 17th April 2018
PAN UK: Campaign launched to ban toxic pesticides in London
Media: 4th April 2018
THE ECOLOGIST: Campaigners accuse farming lobby of misleading public over pesticides
Media: 4th April 2018
WILDLIFE & COUNTRYSIDE LINK: The time is right to turn away from chemical pesticides
Press Release: 28th March 2018
PAN UK: The hidden rise of UK pesticide use
Media: 22nd March 2018
BRINKWIRE: Environmentalists skeptical of ‘breakthrough’ on bee-friendly pesticides
Media: 27th February 2018
THE GUARDIAN: Please don’t stop giving to charity – these Ethiopian farmers show how crucial it is
Media: 21st January 2018
FARMERS GUARDIAN: New poll finds public uneasy about pesticide use
Media: 12th January 2018
JUST-STYLE: Ethiopia achieves its first organic cotton certification
Media: 11th January 2018
TRAID: 200 cotton farmers first in Ethiopia to gain organic certification
Media: 19th December 2017
HUFFINGTON POST: Vast majority of public want to keep EU bans on pesticides
Media: 10th December 2017
DAILY MAIL: Alarming chemical cocktail sprayed on your fruit and veg
Media: 27th November 2017
THE TELEGRAPH: Number of toxic chemicals applied to vegetables has risen 17 fold since 1960s
Media: 10th November 2017
THE GUARDIAN: Michael Gove is backing a ban on bee-killing pesticides
Media: 12th October 2017
SOURCING JOURNAL: PAN UK report cites uneven progress in pesticide use in cotton farming
Press Release: 2nd October 2017
PAN UK: Leading brands improve performance on sustainable cotton but many still fall short.
Media: 22nd September 2017
THE GUARDIAN: Assumed safety of pesticide use is false, says top government scientist
Media: 11th September 2017
DAILY MAIL: The 20 foods worth splashing out on to buy organic
Media: 5th September 2017
THE GUARDIAN: Free school fruit contains multiple pesticides, UK report shows
Media: 5th September 2017
RIVERFORD: Multiple pesticides found in free school fruit and veg
Media: 5th September 2017
DAILY MAIL: Chemicals from 13 pesticides are discovered on fruit and vegetables handed out at school to millions of children aged four to six
Media: 5th September 2017
THE SUN: Four in five pieces of fruit and veg given to kids at school contain traces of pesticides ‘linked to CANCER and infertility’
Media: 5th September 2017
THE ECOLOGIST: Cocktail of pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables given to schoolchildren
Media: 5th September 2017
THE MIRROR: Toxic fruit and veg given free to millions of pupils as it’s revealed harmful pesticides in 84% foods tested
Press Release: 5th September 2017
PAN UK: Daily cost of 1p extra per child could end schoolchildren’s exposure to cocktail of pesticides
Media: 26th July 2017
LOCALGOV: The cost of glyphosate-based weed killers
Media: 7th March 2017
INDEPENDENT: ‘Aggressive’ firms peddling myth pesticides are needed to feed world condemned by UN
Media: 8th February 2017
THE ECOLOGIST: Fighting the Brexit threat to pesticide laws
Media: 25th August 2016
THE ECOLOGIST: Dark days ahead for British agriculture?
Media: 9th August 2014
THE GUARDIAN: Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
