15, 2022. The assessment is a starting point for further discussion among EU members and a peer-review process managed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). EFSA and ECHA plan to organize parallel public meetings in September to discuss the ...
Nick von Westenholz, CEO of the Crop Protection Association commented, “We are pleased to see that EFSA concurs with the numerous health assessments conducted by public authorities on glyphosate over the past 40 years which have all concluded that, when used correctly, it poses no meaningful ri...
2000). The potentialcarcinogenicityof glyphosate has led to a strong public and political discussion, also because different studies and institution evaluations have brought to result inconsistency and thus to controversial conclusions (Huhn, 2018;Tarazona et al., 2017). Indeed, EFSA (European Food ...
2000). The potentialcarcinogenicityof glyphosate has led to a strong public and political discussion, also because different studies and institution evaluations have brought to result inconsistency and thus to controversial conclusions (Huhn, 2018;Tarazona et al., 2017). Indeed, EFSA (European Food ...
The court ruling found that public interest in the possible effect of glyphosate on health and the environment is more important than protecting confidential business information and that EFSA was wrong to refuse access to the studies. A new study linking glyphosate use to an increased risk of ...
Public Health and Food Safety- happily better known by its abbreviation ENVI - will take part in an Exchange of Views (EoV) about glyphosate with the EU Commission, the WHO (World Health Organisation)International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC) and theEuropean Food Safety Authority(EFSA)....
In addition, EFSA has argued that it will take them a very long time to process the request, and even though this is not a final response to our request, they have already stated that they do not see an overriding public interest in obtaining the studies - citing the need to protect th...
EFSA: European Food Safety Agency EO: Ethoxylate groups as referring to ethoxylate-containing surfactants Epilimnion: The upper layer of water in a temperature-stratified lake) EPSPS: 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase FAO: Food and Agriculture Agency of the United Nations FAR: Fiel...
Under the new rules, studies and information supporting a request for a scientific output by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are to be made public automatically when an application by a food business operator is validated or found admissible. This followed an EU court ruling in March...
According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) there is low acute toxicity observed by oral, dermal, or inhalation routes10. Glyphosate acts by inhibiting the 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSP) enzyme that is involved in the metabolism of aromatic amino acids in plants. ...