Neurotoxicity of pesticides

Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,

With this letter, we would like to express our concerns regarding the regulation of neurotoxic pesticides in the EU and request upon you to take action. Pesticides-related neurological diseases are rising in the EU (Parkinson's, autism, etc.), and specialists have raised alarms of an upcoming “Parkinson's epidemic”1 . At the same time, scientific knowledge is evolving rapidly and therefore regulatory actions on the side of the Commission are urgent.

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