After reading this article, I relay the following comment from the collective Science-Technologies-Action (STA): “At the request of the [French] government, ANSES is launching a call for applications to improve knowledge on the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.”
This is the title of the communiqué published July 19, 2019 by the four ministers of Agriculture, Health, Research and Ecology who had seized ANSES on March 28, 2018, “given the divergent opinions offered by the agencies that make reference in the field of evaluation.”
[Editor’s note: Albert Amgar is the former president of a French food safety company.]
The results of this study, costing € 1.2 million [$1,333,092], will be available within 18 months and will complete the review dossier for the re-authorization of glyphosate by the European Union in 2022. The STA Collective is asking several questions about this initiative, including: why do we need a new study on glyphosate when this herbicide has been the subject of nearly 50 years of multiple studies, and all French, European and international health agencies have concluded the absence of health risk?
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[Editor’s note: This article was written in French. This summary was translated and lightly edited for clarity.]
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