Highly Hazardous Pesticides
The PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) criteria include acute toxicity, long term health effects, environmental hazards and status under global pesticide-related conventions.
Global Pesticide Trade
Millions of barrels of pesticides travel the global marketplace, and then re-circulate as residue on food and fiber. Tackling this “circle of poison” has galvanized PAN activists around the globe since the network’s early days.
POPs Pesticides
Persistent organic pollutants, or “POPs,” are chemicals that persist in the environment for years – sometimes decades.
Banned Pesticides
A Consolidated List of Pesticide Bans has been developed by Dr. Meriel Watts to identify which pesticides have been banned by particular countries, because there appears to be no other comprehensive compilation of such information.
International Treaties & Controls
The growth of world trade in pesticides during the 1960s and 1970s led to increased concerns about the risks of using hazardous chemicals. In the early 1980s, farmers, workers and communities around the world, and especially in the Global South, began organizing to protect themselves from pesticides imports.
U.S. Pesticide Rules
The U.S. system for pesticide evaluation and registration has serious weaknesses. A fundamental problem with EPA’s risk management process for pesticides is that compliance with label instructions is assumed when calculating “acceptable” risks.