A European Commission spokesperson has confirmed that the EU executive has stated that European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will be formally tasked with assessing whether the peer-reviewed findings of a new international study showing that glyphosate causes six of the most common cancers affect the current risk assessment of glyphosate.¹ “If ECHA or EFSA would confirm that glyphosate no longer meets the approval criteria or that the conditions of approval must be amended, the Commission will act immediately to amend or withdraw the approval,” the EC spokesperson stated Friday.

Meanwhile, Dutch farmers’ organization LTO has called for a rapid assessment of the new international study. If the findings are confirmed, the LTO said the product’s approval “must be withdrawn immediately”, Trouw quoted the organization as saying. Glyphosate is widely used by Dutch farmers in both the food and flower industry. The comprehensive carcinogenicity study, which has caused this reaction from the European Commission and farming groups across the EU, involved scientists from Europe and the U.S., and found that low doses of the controversial weed killer cause multiple types of cancer in rats.

1. https://glyphosatestudy.org/uncategorized/international-study-reveals-glyphosate-weed-killers-cause-multiple-types-of-cancer/ ↩︎