EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show

Bloc urged to end unethical double standard' of allowing sale of products deemed too dangerous for EU farms

European chemical corporations have issued plans to export increasing quantities of toxic" pesticides deemed too dangerous to spray on EU farms, an investigation has found, despite a pledge to end the practice.

Planned exports of domestically banned pesticides rose from 81,600 tons in 2018 to 122,000 tons in 2024, according to export notifications obtained via freedom of information requests by Unearthed, the investigative newsroom of Greenpeace, and the Swiss nonprofit Public Eye.