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The irony behind banning glyphosate

Nov 27, 2017

Business, Environment, Health, Opinion, Policy

In all, 14 member states voted in favour of extending glyphosate’s EU licence for another five years, while nine voted against, including France. Five countries - Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania...

French activists raise the stakes ahead of critical glyphosate review

West Side Story

Sep 8, 2017

Opinion

Earlier this summer, it seemed that a scoop by Reuters had finally put to rest uncertainty still swirling in Europe around the question of whether glyphosate causes cancer. Yet even with more and more evidence ...

How science is silenced in the debate over glyphosate

Connor Fisher

Mar 24, 2017

Opinion, Science

In both Europe and the United States, the current political climate has placed an unprecedented amount of scrutiny on how regulatory policies are crafted and how science influences the debate. The ongoing debat...

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