PAN UK’s supermarket ranking assesses supermarkets on six key topics:

  • Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides (including those that pose the greatest risk to farmworkers’ health)
  • Supporting suppliers to use non-chemical alternatives to pesticides
  • Reducing pesticide residues in food
  • Protecting bees and other pollinators from pesticides
  • Selling pesticide products
  • Being transparent about pesticides

We selected these six topics based on the following factors:

  • The key aspects of supermarket supply chains which involve using (or selling) pesticides.
  • The areas in which supermarkets can make the biggest impact in terms of reducing pesticide-related harms.
  • Prior PAN UK knowledge of positive actions that some UK supermarkets are already taking on pesticides that could be adopted more broadly across the sector.
  • Issues that are of particular concern or interest to the general public.