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Ban Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Two million tonnes of pesticides are used across the globe annually, causing significant health and environmental harm.

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What Are Highly Hazardous Pesticides?

The Pesticide Action Network classifies pesticides as highly hazardous if they are known for high acute toxicity (e.g. fatal if inhaled), long-term toxic effects (e.g. carcinogenic), and are endocrine disruptors. HHPs are also pesticides that pose hazards to ecosystems and are of high environmental concern.

Working Towards a Global Ban

Despite being a major health and environmental threat, there is no global mechanism that effectively regulates the use of pesticides. Existing regulations are voluntary and non-binding, or just limited to a few pesticides. PANAP is calling for a progressive ban on Highly Hazardous Pesticides and a global governance mechanism on pesticides. PAN also comes up with an annual list of banned pesticides based on official data from 98 countries.

View PAN’s Pesticide List

Campaigns to Ban Specific Pesticides

Throughout the years, PANAP has led or supported campaigns to ban Highly Hazardous Pesticides in several countries.

Cover of the Dirty Dozen campaign report

Dirty Dozen Campaign

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Poster listing the twenty most hazardous pesticides

Terrible Twenty Pesticides

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Cover of the PANAP monograph on paraquat

Paraquat

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Cover of the PANAP report on endosulfan in Kerala

Endosulfan

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Cover of the PANAP monograph on glyphosate

Glyphosate

Read the monograph
Community members recording pesticide exposure in the field

Community Pesticide Action Monitoring

Community Pesticide Action Monitoring (CPAM) is a Participatory Action Research approach developed by PANAP to document and create awareness of pesticide impacts on human health and the environment.

Know More
Download the CPAM Modules
Go to the CPAM Web

Learn more

Learn more about how pesticides cause harm to human health and the environment.

Pesticide containers stacked at a trading warehouse

Double Standards in Pesticides Trade

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A bee on a flower, illustrating insect population collapse

Insect Collapse

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A pink ribbon marking breast cancer awareness

Pesticides & Breast Cancer

Read the booklet
Laboratory glassware used in endocrine disruption research

Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides

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Children playing beside a sprayed field

Pesticides & Children

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Publications

Towards a Non-Toxic Environment in South-East Asia: Lessons Learned

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