Press releases
| 09.12.11 | Legal Opinion: Syngenta ignores Human Rights Syngenta ignores fundamental human rights by selling its Paraquat herbicide in developing countries. Both a legal opinion, as well as the Permanent People’s ... more |
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| 16.05.11 | Syngenta’s bestseller ‘Gramoxone’ on the way to be listed as Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulation by the Rotterdam Convention. The Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention – a group of 31 designated experts – agreed to recommend that pesticides containing Paraquat (20% or ... more |
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| 13.12.10 | Syngenta Herbicide found to be major cause of poisoning in West Africa Another strike against Syngenta blockbuster paraquat: a new study out of Burkina Faso shows that the Syngenta herbicide Gramoxone (active substance paraquat) causes... more |
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| 17.08.09 | Leading Food Producers Say No to Syngenta Bestseller Paraquat One of the key products of the Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta is increasingly losing ground in the pesticide market. Today, the IUF* and the Berne ... more |
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| 22.04.08 | Greenwashing Syngenta-Style – Berne Declaration Finds Company’s CSR Report Misleading At today’s general assembly of Syngenta, the Berne Declaration presents „Glaring Contradictions between Appearance and Reality“, an evaluation of the Corporate... more |
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| 06.02.08 | Syngenta Resorts to Disinformation to Save Paraquat Syngenta is set to present its yearly results tomorrow. Most likely the Basel-based agrochemicals giant will once again try to charm investors and media with tales... more |
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| 12.10.07 | Dole discontinues Paraquat use and puts additional pressure on Syngenta As reported earlier this week, Dole, the world's largest producer and marketer of fruit, vegetables, and cut flowers will no longer use Paraquat. Even as growing... more |
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| 01.05.07 | Syngenta accused of violating FAO code of conduct NGOs from Asia, Latin America, and Europe are filing a complaint with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) against the Swiss... more |
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| 07.02.07 | Syngenta: Tidy profit at the expense of pesticide victims Tomorrow, Syngenta will present another set of splendid profit figures for the past year. With an action before the company’s corporate headquarters the Berne... more |
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| 06.11.06 | Stop Paraquat: Citizens around the World condemn Syngenta The campaign to stop the Syngenta pesticide paraquat is gathering support around the world. The International Union of Agricultural Workers' Associations (IUF), the... more |
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| 25.10.06 | Worldwide support for the Stop-Paraquat Campaign Groups call on Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta to take responsibility for devastating health impacts and to stop production of this extremely hazardous pesticide... more |
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| 08.12.05 | Paraquat: Unacceptable health risks for users For December 10, the «International Human Rights Day», the Pesticide Action Network and the Berne Declaration are publishing a report that highlights once more the... more |
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| 17.11.05 | Unions, NGOs call for Changes to Industry-Sponsored Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil Authorizing Highly Toxic Pesticides The IUF 1) and the Berne Declaration 2) are calling for fundamental changes to proposed «Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil Production» which... more |
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| 28.07.04 | Stop unethical advertising of paraquat in Thailand! Syngenta taken to task over violation of International Code of Conduct on marketing of toxic herbicide in complaint to UN FAO Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia... more |
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| 27.04.04 | Paraquat Criticism: Syngenta turns a deaf ear At Syngenta’s first general assembly two years ago, an appeal was read out in which a Malaysian palm oil worker urged the Basel-based corporation to phase-out... more |
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| 02.12.02 | BD welcomes the Swiss federal government’s support for the proscription of paraquat Berne Declaration and other NGO’s from around the world welcome the Swiss government’s determination to support future efforts to include paraquat in Annex III of... more |
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| 20.09.02 | Malaysia bans Syngenta Pesticide Paraquat The circular - issued by the Pesticides Control Division of the Agriculture Department and signed by the Secretary of Malaysia's Pesticides Control Board - states... more |
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| 22.04.02 | Time to phase out paraquat – Syngenta’s controversial pesticide A new report published by the five public interest groups shows alternative ways of controlling weeds. It is time to take global action and remove this old ... more |
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