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European Environment Committee Votes Against Glyphosate Renewal
Posted on Mar 22 2016 - 3:23pm by Sustainable Pulse
The Committee on Environment, Food Safety & Public Health (ENVI) formally objected Tuesday to the re-authorization by the European Commission of the herbicide glyphosate.
Source: www.guengl.eu
A majority of the ENVI members supported this objection (36 in favour, 6 against and 18 abstentions), which was voted for on Tuesday.
ENVI stated; So long as serious concerns remain about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, which is used in hundreds of farm, forestry, urban and garden applications, the EU Commission should not renew its authorisation. Instead, it should commission an independent review and disclose all the scientific evidence that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) used to assess glyphosate.
The non-binding resolution calls on the EU executive to table a new draft. MEPs want the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority to immediately disclose all the scientific evidence that has been a basis for the positive classification of glyphosate and the proposed re-authorisation, given the overriding public interest in disclosure.
The motion for a resolution will be put to a vote at the 11-14 April plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
National experts sitting in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (Phytopharmaceuticals Section) will vote to adopt or reject the Commission proposal by qualified majority in May. If there is no such majority, it will be up to the European Commission to decide.
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SOURCE: http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/gue-ngl-meps-denounce-glyphosate-re-authorisation-as-irresponsible-and-unac
libodem
(19,288 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)This toxic crap is everywhere. It's in beer, tampons and of course in human beings. Time to put a cork in it.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)here. More poison, all day all night!
Quantess
(27,630 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)...yet another reason why the people have a right to know.
You can get glyphosate on non-GMO crops as well, but if the food is made with GMOs the likelihood that there is glyphosate residue contaminating it would be higher.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)"Omaha, Nebraska-based law firm Domina Law Group has announced it will be investigating cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in farmers from Nebraska and across the country who have been exposed to the widely-used herbicide glyphosate.
"In March 2015, a paper published in the journal The Lancet titled Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate, authored by Kathryn Z. Guyton and others, reporting on behalf of a World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph Working Group of 17 experts from 11 countries who met at the the IARC in Lyon, France, to assess the carcinogenicity of five organophosphate pesticides: tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate.
"Their assessments have also been published as Volume 112 of the IARC Monographs..."
http://lymphomanewstoday.com/2016/03/22/farmers-diagnosed-with-non-hodgkin-lymphoma-take-action/