The EU’s Double Standard on Toxic Pesticides

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. © 2011 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Fifteen organizations including Human Rights Watch sent letters to European Union officials and lawmakers this week pressing the European Commission to follow through on its commitments to stop the export of pesticides that are banned in the EU.EU regulators have banned these pesticides within the EU after reviewing evidence that they pose unacceptable risks either to the environment or human health,…

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