No Pesticides Without Safety Tests
To Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Olivér Várhelyi, European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Ilze Juhansone, Secretary-General of the European Commission, Sandra Gallina, Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety (DG SANTE)
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Our European food safety is at risk. A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical pesticides. This would mean that toxic pesticides could be approved forever, without ever having to prove they are safe.We call on you to:
- Reject any plan or proposal to allow unlimited or permanent chemical approvals.
- Protect the requirement that companies must prove their chemicals and pesticides are safe.
- Defend the precautionary principle and independent scientific assessment.
The EU must put our health and environment above Bayer-Monsanto and pesticide giants.
Why is this important?
Imagine our food in Europe filled with toxic pesticides and glyphosate. That’s the future EU politicians are pushing for right now. Unless we stop it.
Behind closed doors, the EU plans to push through new rules that would give Bayer-Monsanto and pesticide giants exactly what they’ve always dreamed of: toxic pesticides approved forever, without ever having to prove they are safe.
Right now, Europe has the safest rules in the world to protect us from pesticides. If a company wants to sell a pesticide, they have to prove it’s safe. And they must re-prove it every few years to keep it on the market.
For a decade, we’ve been fighting to keep glyphosate and pesticides off our plates.
Now the EU could undo it all, letting these toxic chemicals into our food forever.
Greedy companies like Bayer-Monsanto and others are pushing hard for exactly this outcome. Unless we act fast, they will win.
We learned about this plan before the Commission made it public, and that gives us a rare chance. [1] If we show a massive public backlash before the proposal is even published, they will think twice about putting it forward at all.
Together, we can stop this disaster before it poisons our future, and our children’s future, forever.
References:
[1] https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2025/11/eu-commission-proposes-unlimited-pesticide-approvals-science-abandoned;
https://www.euractiv.com/content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/EURACTIV-SIMPLIFICATION.pdf