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News: Pesticide companies will have to share information

The EU Court of Justice has announced that information about pesticides, their ingredients and their effects on the environment can no longer be hidden behind commercial confidentiality clauses and instead will have to be made available to those requesting it.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: Diageo the latest food company to face strikes over pension cuts

Strikes may affect up to 50 Scottish distilleries, as the company that paid its Chief Executive nearly £4m last year is accused of 'Scrooge-like' behaviour towards its workers.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: Changing climate may thwart plans for 'sustainable intensification'

A research paper suggests that climate change could undermine efforts to meet an expanding demand for food by growing more on existing croplands.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: The Pasture-Fed Livestock Association is recruiting a CEO

The non-profit organisation that promotes exclusive grazing for ruminants has grown from nothing, mainly on goodwill, over the past five years, and now wants help to expand and become self-financing.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: Targets urgently needed for reducing sugar in fizzy drinks

Research shows that fizzy drinks contain 'alarming' but variable amounts of sugar -- suggesting that levels could be cut without technical problems. Meanwhile, teenagers are drinking 'a bathtub' of them every year.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: Campaign group working to safeguard antibiotics shortlisted for award

The Alliance to Save our Antibiotics has been shortlisted for an award that recognises the efforts and achievements of European NGOs in reducing threats to human health.
Sustain | Friday 25 November 2016

News: From hazard to risk: the devil in the Brexit detail

At a meeting between the pesticide sector and the regulator, there was a strong wish to replace EU agrichemical regulation with a new, potentially weaker, approach.
Sustain | Friday 18 November 2016

News: Urgent action demanded on antibiotic resistance

Campaigners call for an end to 'mass medication' of farm animals, as data released during World Antibiotics Awareness Week show that more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to these critical drugs.
Sustain | Friday 18 November 2016

News: CIWF calls on salmon farmers to abandon 'heat shock' lice treatment

Nearly 100,000 salmon are reported to have been killed on a single farm, when they were overheated during the use of a new device, the ‘thermolicer’, intended to remove lice from intensively farmed fish.
Sustain | Friday 18 November 2016

News: The case for a total phase-out of glyphosate

Amid a fog of information and misinformation, PAN International has produced a 'state of the science' review setting out all the chemical's known adverse effects.
Sustain | Friday 18 November 2016