Pesticides News
No.105 November 2016
PANAP launches campaign to protect children for pesticides to coincide with international childrens day
Sarojeni V. Rengam, from PAN Asia & the Pacific, highlighted PANAP’s work to tackle the problems of glyphosate use in Asia at a special side event to launch PAN International’s Glyphosate Monograph. , She was joined by Peter Clausing who provided details about the carcinogenicity research and Angeliki Lysimachou who presented on the subject of endocrine disruption.
for the European Commission to ensure serious monitoring and guidance on the implementation of the SUDP and similarly reminded them that it has been almost two years since the deadline for publication. Therefore they are requesting that the Director General for Directorate on Health and Food Safety, Mr Prats Monne, answer on what date and in what form the the report will be published. An answer is yet to be received.
intended for application via the wind. School children are continuously being exposed to the pesticides from adjacent or neighbouring farms via pesticide drift. PANAP is calling for: 1. A 2km buffer zone to protect children from toxic pesticides. This would be a comprehensive zone where pesticides cannot be applied. 2. Assistance for farmers, particularly in these zones, to switch to agroecology so they can replace pesticides with nonchemical methods of management. 3. A ban and phase out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides – especially the “Terrible Twenty”. – Known to cause irreversible damage to the developing brains of children and are linked to attention deficit disorders, autism, birth defects and cancer.
This month will also see the launch of PAN-UK’s new online shop. PAN-UK has teamed up with Teemill who print beautiful and bespoke designs on top quality organic cotton products, such as tee shirts, hoodies and PAN Europe tote bags. The company has an PAN Europe is keeping up the Coming Up award-winning ‘seed to shop’ pressure in Brussels to strengthen This coming Nov 20th to Dec 3rd traceability program for all their the implementation of the – PANAP have an on-going products and an impressive Sustainable Use Directive on campaign to highlight the impacts sustainability approach to Pesticides (SUDP). Alongside of pesticides on children (7). This business. PAN UK is working others it submitted an open letter year, the focus will be on with the design department at expressing concern about the pesticide free buffer zones around Teemill to produce a range of delay to the publication of the schools. Schools are meant to be garments celebrating and report on the implementation of a safe environment for children, highlighting the important issues the EU Directive on the but many school children in Asia we work and campaign on. Please Sustainable Use of Pesticides (both rural and urban areas) are have a browse of our designs and (SUDP) that the European exposed to pesticides while treat yourself or your loved ones Commission was due to submit to learning. One of the main causes to a fantastic new garment this the European Parliament and the of pesticides exposure is due to Christmas and help support Council of Ministers on 26 “pesticide drift – the physical PAN’s work. www.pan-uk.org November 2014. movement of pesticide droplets The letter highlighted the need from the farm source to a site not www.pan-uk.org
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