Current Campaigns
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Help Launch PAN’s New What’s On My Food? Website : It reveals what pesticides are found on which foods, in what amounts, and – for the first time – links pesticide residues to its specific health hazards. Spread the word »
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Make Food, Inc. the next Inconvenient Truth: Food, Inc. offers an unflinching exposé of America's industrialized food system. PAN is one of the documentary film’s social action partners -- help us make the film a catalyst for changing our nation’s food system. Take Action »
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Urge EPA to ban endosulfan: EPA has been reviewing endosulfan since 2007 and has recently opened a 60-day docket for public comment. Endosulfan is a neurotoxic organochlorine pesticide -- the same chemical class as DDT and other insecticides that were banned long ago. Tell Lisa Jackson, the EPA’s new leader, that action is long overdue on this obsolete, highly toxic pesticide. Take Action »
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Keep methyl iodide out of California's strawberry fields: CA is considering a new, highly toxic fumigant for the first time in 20 years. Methyl iodide is known to the state of CA to cause cancer, will likely contaminate ground water, and has no place in CA agriculture. Take Action »
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Tell U.S. to support safe malaria solutions: Join experts urging the U.S. to support sustainable solutions to malaria, and protect children and families from this devastating disease without spraying pesticides like DDT inside people’s homes. Take Action »
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Join a CSA Farm in 2009: Being a CSA member means that you pay a farmer - your farmer - one lump sum in the winter, and in exchange you get a weekly allotment of fresh produce from an organic farm all through the spring, summer and fall. Learn More »
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Beating Lice Without Lindane: Share Your Story: Help convince the U.S. to support a global lindane ban - with your story. FDA officials need to know how parents have been controlling lice safely without lindane for years. Share Now »
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Sign-on for National Pesticide Reform!: Tell President Obama to transform the government's approach to pesticide regulation!. Act Now »
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Demand EPA ban chlorpyrifos: A CDC study showed 93% of people tested across the U.S. had chlorpyrifos in their bodies. In Lindsay, CA, PAN found that 91% of residents whose urine was tested had above average levels of breakdown products of the dangerous pesticide. Send a message to EPA NOW!
Recent Campaign Updates
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Strip the GE mandate from the "Global Food Security Act": The Global Food Security Act (SB 384) is the biggest project in U.S. agricultural aid since the failed "Green Revolution", and would mandate U.S. food aid include research on genetically engineered crops. Details »
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Endosulfan moves closer to international ban: PAN, in coalition with Earthjustice and United Farm Workers, delivered over 25,000 signatures to EPA calling for a ban of endosulfan in our food supply. Read More »
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Bhopal cleanup and Dow accountability demands met: Responding to a 172-day, 500-mile march to New Delhi and two-month hunger strike, the Indian government has agreed to rehabilitate victims, hold Dow accountable for cleanup, and investigate Dow bribery charges. Details »
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EPA unveils new rules for fumigant pesticides: In response to three years of advocacy, including petitions with thousands of signatures by Action Center members, US EPA today proposed new rules for five highly toxic fumigant pesticides. Rural communities, environmental health advocates and farmworkers from across the nation had urged EPA to use this opportunity to help move American agriculture to safe, secure and sustainable pest management technologies. Read More »
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International pressure leads to response from Indian PM: Some 5000 letters and faxes from PAN Action Center members to India's Prime Minister helped produce his May 29 announcement promising a Bhopal Commission. Read more about Dow's liability and the build-up to the current hunger strike in Delhi. See PAN Updates »
Latest PANUPS
Ending endosulfan in U.S.; Climate bill; CA pesticide pollution; and more...
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:11:16 -0400Roundup 'inert' kills cells; Children at pesticide risk longer; Bhopal garden; more...
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:30:41 -0400Subscribe to PANUPS, back issues and info » 'What's On My Food?' website; Pesticides & leukemia; Fumigant rules unjust; more...
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