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Africa conference on HHPs

Big global win on the world’s most toxic pesticides

After many long days of negotiations, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) made a historic move for safer food and farming by passing a resolution on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) that calls for action to globally phase out the use of the world’s most toxic pesticides by 2035. Tied with this resolution was the passing of a mandate for UNEP to implement this commitment by forming the Global Alliance on HHPs.

There are thousands of types of PFAS—nearly 15,000 known in a US EPA database—and with thousands of them, it’s safe to say that the majority are not well studied. PFAS (or “forever” chemicals) are persistent—meaning, once they get released, PFAS stick around and have the potential to affect human health for many years. 

A February 6 court decision directed that the use of dicamba be halted for over-the-top (OTT) applications on soybeans and cotton. However, the EPA is allowing the use of existing stock of dicamba under the old use-label guidelines for the 2024 growing season.

Each person on our staff or sitting on our Board of Directors brings something unique to our work and values. In embracing how this individuality makes us stronger, we’re embarking on a series of blogs, People of PAN, which will highlight the unique characteristics that build upon one another to make PAN the organization it is today.

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It’s true. Pesticides are harming our children.

The science is in. Our food system’s continued reliance on pesticides is putting children’s health at risk. Kids across the country are exposed in various ways, but those who grow up in agricultural areas often face a “double dose” of pesticides from nearby fields. Rural

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Who owns our food system?

We’ve been hearing rumours about possible mergers between pesticide/biotech corporations for a while now. Will Monsanto buy Syngenta? Or Bayer? Will the “Big 6” become the “Big 4” or “Big 3” — or perhaps one corporation to rule us all? As the growth in some

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France (partially) pulls the plug on glyphosate

Earlier this month, France’s health and safety agency announced plans to withdraw authorization of herbicides containing both glyphosate and the additive tallowamine. As reported by Reuters, a spokesperson for the agency said: “It is not possible to guarantee that compositions containing glyphosate and tallowamine do

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Have you heard the latest bee buzz?

Yesterday, the “Pollinator Protection Act” took a big step forward in the California legislature, moving closer to becoming state law. This is just one of many positive developments for bees in recent weeks.

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