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The EU banned products then find their way back into our food markets, to our tables, and our bodies, via the import of agricultural products which often contain residues of the originally banned pesticides (Photo: Dennis Mavingo)

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Von der Leyen's broken promise on pesticide exports is toxic colonialism

One of the important but largely unnoticed broken promises of leading European People's Party candidate Ursula Von der Leyen and her European Commission is the one to stop the double standards on toxic pesticides and chemicals.

It’s about substances outlawed for use on European soils, but still produced in the EU and exported around the world. These exports ,...

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The EU banned products then find their way back into our food markets, to our tables, and our bodies, via the import of agricultural products which often contain residues of the originally banned pesticides (Photo: Dennis Mavingo)

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Hans van Scharen and João Camargo are researchers at Corporate Europe Observatory, the NGO monitoring corporate lobbying in Brussels.

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