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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10810

20 March 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) food
PAN Europe contradicts EFSA on pesticide residues

Brussels, 19/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - PAN Europe (Pesticide Action Network Europe) stressed, on Monday 18 March, that there is no proof that “pesticide residues pose no long-term risk to humans”, as recently asserted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The NGO network believes the conclusion reached by EFSA in the 2010 report on pesticide residues in food, published on 12 March (see EUROPE 10804), is “totally unjustified”. This is because EFSA does not calculate the...

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