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.
