What is hiding in your hair? A new pesticide campaign shows how affected by pesticides is our everyday life

Pesticides are everywhere, they don’t stay in the fields. They contaminate not only our food, but also our rivers and lakes, our groundwater, the soil and travel up the food chain from worms, insects and molluscs to fish, birds, small mammals and other wildlife species. They get into our bodies through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Despite their harmful impacts, pesticide sales continue to be a lucrative business model for agrochemical companies. In 2018, four multinational companies (Syngenta/ChemChina, Bayer, Corteva, and BASF) shared 70% of the global pesticide market. In 2019, the sales of pesticide products accounted for 12 billion € in the European Union. Through persistent lobbying, the pesticide industry tries to influence EU policy processes in order to secure the profits from their toxic business. While agrochemical companies are making substantial profits, the European society pays the high costs for this business model.

Many farmers have successfully demonstrated that producing safe and healthy food without synthetic pesticides is possible. This is why we urgently need political commitment from the EU Commission and governments for a drastic reduction of pesticide use and support for agroecological farming across the EU.

The EU Commission outlined in their crucial EU Farm to Fork strategy the ambition to cut pesticides in half by 2030. Yet, this target is not legally binding  and challenged by many stakeholders, e.g. national governments or lobbies of food and farming industries. Currently, the EU is revising its pesticide regulations. We need to make sure that the ambition is not watered down and the EU implements ambitious and legally binding legislations. With this ambition, GFGF started the pesticide campaign, which main objectives are to raise awareness among citizens and to build up on the pressure and demonstrate the citizens’ demands to EU decision-makers!

Join in GFGF campaign: together we show that we want a change now.

If you want to find out how many pesticides are hiding in your hair, take part in the big Pesticide-CheckUp! How can you take part? 

It's easy. Register with the lab, order a test kit and then: snap, snip! The lab tests your sample for 30 different pesticides. You can order a test kit for 15 Euro incl. Shipping or buy the luxury version for 150 Euro at self-cost and receive your own results. If you order the luxury version you help us to make more tests possible.

Follow the link below for more Pesticide-CheckUp details:

https://en.expozom.com/products/pesticides-checkup-bul#22895484