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USA: Glyphosate: EPA stops false labelling

22/08/2019 - François-Xavier Branthôme

EPA wants to provide accurate risk information to consumers

According to its official press release on 8 August, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will no longer approve product labels claiming glyphosate is known to cause cancer – a “false claim that does not meet the labelling requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)”. EPA is issuing guidance to registrants of glyphosate to ensure clarity on labelling of the chemical on their products. The State of California’s much criticized Proposition 65 - which stated in 2017 that this pesticide should be labelled as a "probable carcinogen", reflecting the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a satellite of the World Health Organization, presented two years earlier - has “led to misleading labelling requirements for products, like glyphosate, because it misinforms the public about the risks they are facing. This action will ensure consumers have correct information, and is based on EPA’s comprehensive evaluation of glyphosate”.

"It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk. We will not allow California’s flawed program to dictate federal policy,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. “It is critical that federal regulatory agencies like EPA relay to consumers accurate, scientific based information about risks that pesticides may pose to them. EPA’s notification to glyphosate registrants is an important step to ensuring the information shared with the public on a federal pesticide label is correct and not misleading.”

In April, EPA took the next step in the review process for glyphosate. EPA found – as it has before – that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, and there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label. These scientific findings are consistent with the conclusions of science reviews by many other countries and other federal agencies.

Since the acquisition of Monsanto, Bayer faces multiple procedures related to the US group's glyphosate herbicide, which in recent months has been the subject of three adverse California judgments, and now has more than 18,400 claims in the United States. In Europe, Austria was the first European country to ban glyphosate completely after Parliament approved an amendment banning the herbicide "in the name of the precautionary principle". After two years of difficult debate, the EU Member States approved glyphosate in November 2017 for five years. The European Commission then put forward the green light of its scientific agencies, whose independence was then questioned.

EU: A new study on glyphosate
More recently, at the request of the French government, National Agency for Food Safety, Food, Environment and Labor (ANSES) has issued a call for applications to carry out a new study to evaluate the carcinogenic risks of glyphosate. The purpose of this approach is to result in an arbitration while several studies concerning this herbicide contradict each other. The solicitation is addressed to national and international public research teams. This call comes a few months after the designation of France, along with Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden, by the European Union, to be part of a technical committee on phytosanitary products. In addition, the results of the French study will complete in 2022 the dossier for the review of glyphosate authorization by the Member States.

For more information about EPA’s comprehensive evaluation of glyphosate, visit https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361-0073.

Sources: epa.gov, lafranceagricole.fr, techniques-ingenieur.fr

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