Glyphosate August 25, 2016 12:00 am A report by New Zealand’s Environment Protection Agency has concluded that glyphosate is ‘unlikely to be genotoxic or carcinogenic to humans’. It also found fault with a number of the findings on which the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research’s study was based on. This report cited a link with cancer and divided Member States’ opinions on whether to allow the product to be re-licenced. Readers will remember that an 18-month extension was given by the Commission whilst the EU’s Chemical Agency concludes its own safety assessment by the end of 2017.
