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Chlorpyrifos Petition Summary

The government needs to urgently reassess and ban the brain-damaging insecticide chlorpyrifos. NZ children are exposed to high levels of...

Children at risk from toxic pesticide: chlorpyrifos

Children are at risk from a toxic pesticide – New Zealand should urgently reassess chlorpyrifos.

Pesticides in tomatoes

Why should you choose organic tomatoes? More than two thirds of samples tested had pesticides, including sauce and juice.

What’s wrong with aspartame?

What's wrong with aspartame, the artificial sweetener 951, found in thousands of products?

7 Facts about Genetically Engineered Food

Fact No. 1: Genetic engineering (GE) is a laboratory technique. Genetic engineering is a laboratory created seed technology that was...

EPA make right decision on three toxic organophosphates

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA NZ) has made the right decision on the reassessment of three toxic organophosphates.

Chlorpyrifos Petition

Sign our parliamentary petition to get rid of the insecticide chlorpyrifos

Food packaging and PFAS

How can you lower PFAS going into your body? By not buying certain types of food packaging, you will lower chemicals going into your body.

Tea with plastic, anyone?

Did you know that most tea bags contain plastic? Manufacturers use plastic, commonly polypropylene, because it is cheap, durable, can...

Plastic

What are the alternatives and what can be recycled? Plastics are not only breaking down into microplastics, causing environmental damage...

Canola Oil

Is canola oil good or bad for you? Is it the same as rapeseed oil? It's one of the cheapest oils you can buy, and is being used more and...

“Safe to eat? May be not for kids”

Children are being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides every time they eat non-organic raisins and sultanas. The latest New Zealand Total...