pesticides

Conference 26th June 2024: Farming without harming: policy action for resilient agriculture

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Hosted by Pesticide Action Network Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility and Agroecology Europe Where: Multiburo EU Parliament (Square de Meeûs 38-40, 1000 Brussels) and Online When: 26th June 2024, 14:00-17:00 CET Language: English Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rFGe8L87VzEXm0AcX7k1wFo9ry95Kym_t5JcVOIBnwk/viewform?edit_requested=true   Pesticide Action Network Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, The European Network of Scientists for Social and … Read more

Pesticides in Formulations: New Revolutionary Findings

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by Gilles-Eric Seralini Network on Risks, Quality and Sustainable Environment and Faculty of Sciences, University of Caen Normandy, 14032 Caen, France Toxics 2024, 12(2), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics12020151 Submission received: 22 January 2024 / Accepted: 1 February 2024 / Published: 15 February 2024 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Pesticides in Formulations: Toxicological and Regulatory Assessments, … Read more

Glyphosate: EU pesticide approval system fails to identify full impact, to the detriment of people and the environment

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Glyphosate: EU pesticide approval system fails to identify full impact, to the detriment of people and the environment EU must respect Precautionary Principle and withdraw glyphosate’s authorisation   The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) has serious reservations about the position of “no critical areas of concern” adopted by the European … Read more

Agricultural GMOs and their associated pesticides: misinformation, science, and evidence

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By Michael N. Antoniou, Claire Robinson, Irina Castro & Angelika Hilbeck Published in: Environmental Sciences Europe volume 35, Article number: 76 (2023) Abstract Misinformation has always existed, but it became a major preoccupation during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its ability to affect public health choices, decisions, and policy. In their article, “Misinformation in the … Read more

The human gut fungiome: Role in physiology and detoxification

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By Gilles-Eric Seralini DOI: https://doi.org/10.17352/jfsnt.000041 Abstract The intestinal microbiota is an ecosystem where bacteria, archaea, viruses, and protists, are entangled, but not alone. We take microbiota as the bacterial community because, in many historical papers, the probes to detect other organisms in the intestine were rarely used. But in addition, unicellular fungi or yeasts do … Read more

Potential to reduce pesticides in intensive apple production through management practices could be challenged by climatic extremes

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Abstract Apples are the third most produced fruit in the world, but their production is often pesticide-intensive. Our objective was to identify options for pesticide reduction using farmer records from 2549 commercial apple fields in Austria during five years between 2010 and 2016. Using generalized additive mixed modeling, we examined how pesticide use was related … Read more

Reasons for Reinforcing the Regulation of Chemicals in Europe

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By Erik Millstone and Peter Clausing European Journal of Risk Regulation (2023), 1–15 doi:10.1017/err.2022.41 Abstract The European Commission’s 2020 draft Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability set the ambitious goal of achieving a “Toxic-Free Environment”. Those ambitions were harshly criticised by a team based in Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (or BfR); they claimed that toxicological … Read more

Review: Limitations in the evidential basis supporting health benefits from a decreased exposure to pesticides through organic food consumption

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By Robin Mesnage, Ioannis N. Tsakiris, Michael N. Antoniou, Aristides Tsatsakis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cotox.2019.11.003 Abstract Consumer demand for organic food is mostly based on the belief that organic products are healthier because they are less contaminated with pesticides. We explain why health benefits from a decreased exposure to pesticides through organic food consumption remain unsubstantiated. There is … Read more

Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture

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By Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati1*, Sotirios Maipas1, Chrysanthi Kotampasi1, Panagiotis Stamatis1 and Luc Hens2 1 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2 Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00148 Published in 2016 in frontiers in public health The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the … Read more

Conference “Science in the Eye of the Storm”, Berlin, September 10-11 2014

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 PROGRAM and DOCUMENTATION – please find below the final program of the conference including speakers’ presentations – Opening of conference and setting the stage Speaker: Angelika Hilbeck (ENSSER / ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Plenary symposium I Development towards sustainability – local, regional, global Chairs: Michael Dittmar (ETH Zurich / conCERNed for Humanity club at CERN, Switzerland); … Read more

New kinds of genetically modified plants and pesticides not being assessed for safety

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Press Release 03/13 New kinds of genetically modified plants and pesticides not being assessed for safety Christchurch, 22.03.2013 – In a new peer-reviewed paper published by an international team from New Zealand, Brazil and Australia in the prestigious journal Environment International, the researchers Jack A. Heinemann, Sarah Z. Agapito-Tenfen and Judy A. Carman have found … Read more

Congress on Risks for Public Health & the Environment

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Time for Convergence in European Technology Assessment and Risk Assessment May 16-18, 2012 – Madrid/Spain – Complutense University Co-organisers: ENSSER, EEA, Fundación Vivosano/Health Defense Organisation, Cátedra Universidad-Empresa-Sindicato: Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud   May 16 (13:30) – Opening Prof. Emilio Mínguez Torres, Vice-Rector, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Prof. Antonio Notario Gómez, Director, School of Forestry … Read more