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Dec 8, 2024 | publiceye.ch | Naira Hofmeister |Crispin Dowler |with Laurent Gaberell

When Brazil banned the notorious weedkiller paraquat, farmers switched to diquat, a close chemical cousin. But now diquat – a Syngenta pesticide banned in Switzerland and in the EU – is causing problems of its own. Naira Hofmeister, with Laurent Gaberell and Crispin Dowler, 8. December 2024 When one side of his body seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz feared he was having a stroke. “All the right side of my body was paralysed.

May 14, 2024 | publiceye.ch | Oliver Classen |David Hachfeld

Two years after our pioneering investigation into Shein’s southern Chinese manufacturing plants, a follow-up investigation highlights what the online fashion giant’s sustainability rhetoric is worth. Illegal working hours and piecework wages remain a typical feature of the everyday lives of the workers interviewed. Hence the doubt that is cast over a factory audit commissioned by Shein. The ultra-fast fashion company, which has come under pressure, is also arousing suspicion due to its opaque finances and because its founder has disappeared from the scene.

Jun 22, 2023 | publiceye.ch | Laurent Gaberell

The European Union and Switzerland are still exporting chlorothalonil, a fungicide marketed by Syngenta and other companies, despite having banned the use of this chemical on their own farms because of its potential to contaminate groundwater and cause cancer. The main destinations are low- and middle-income countries, where governments do not have the capacity to manage the risks posed by this dangerous pesticide.

May 17, 2023 | publiceye.ch | Crispin Dowler

New investigation shows for first time the full scale of the EU’s trade in neonicotinoid chemicals it has branded a global threat to biodiversity and food security. The European Union is exporting more than 10,000 tonnes of ‘bee killing’ neonicotinoid pesticides a year to poorer countries, despite having banned the use of these chemicals in its own fields to protect pollinators.