EASA - European Advertising Standards Alliance
  • About us
    • What is SAFE?
    • Why SAFE?
    • Mission
    • Financial Support
    • Activity Reports
    • SAFE Team
    • Work with us
  • Actions
  • Projects
  • Campaigns
  • Members
  • Events
  • News
  • Safe In the Media
  • Contact

Tag: Glyphosate

  • New RAC assessment on the risks of glyphosate

    03 Jun 2022

    On May 30th, The Risk Evaluation Committee (RAC) from ECHA published the conclusions of its assessment on the various risks of glyphosate. Based on hundreds of feedbacks from vario...

    Tags: ECHA, EFSA, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Renewal of approval of glyphosate in 2022 : The Assessment Group on Glyphosate releases its draft assessment

    16 Jun 2021

    In May 2019, the European Commission appointed France, Hungary, The Netherlands and Sweden to act as rapporteur Member States for the next assessment on glyphosate.  Glyp...

    Tags: bees, biodiversity, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Bayer GMO gets EC approval

    05 Oct 2020

    The European Commission worringly authorised a genetically modified soybean for food and feed, but not cultivation, on 28 September 2020. This soybean, the XtendFlex, was approved ...

    Tags: Bayer, European Commission, Glyphosate, GMO, Soybean

  • FleishmanHillard document rekindles the war on glyphosate

    17 May 2019

    French news channel France 2 television recently issued a report about a document from the largest Brussels-based consultancy FleishmanHillard showing which politicians, scientists...

    Tags: Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup, Scandal

  • Pesticide Dependency Reductions must become one of the success indicators of the Common Agricultural Policy

    05 Jun 2018

    On the 1st of June, the European Commission has published its legislative proposals and its impact assessment on CAP reform. Within the hundreds of pages of documents, pesticide us...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome ‘at safe levels’, study claims

    17 May 2018

    Study on rats said to show that the chemical, found in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, poses ‘a significant public health concern’. According to the pilot study, the substance...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show

    08 May 2018

    After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show that some popular weedkilling products, like Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup, have higher rates of toxicity t...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Farmers hail new transparency rules in food safety, still want science-based decisions

    18 Apr 2018

    EU farmers have welcomed the European Commission’s new rules on transparency in food safety assessments. However, it is still uncertain to which extent this will ensure that futu...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup, Transparency

  • EU Commission wants new powers to vet product safety

    12 Apr 2018

    On April 11, the European Commission proposed giving itself new powers to request scientific studies on the safety of products, in an effort to quell public concerns that industry ...

    Tags: Consumers, EFSA, European Commission, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Six member states call for glyphosate alternatives, exit plan

    05 Jan 2018

    Six member states that opposed the re-authorisation glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, sent a letter to the European Commission last month asking the EU execu...

    Tags: Agriculture, ECHA, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Is Glyphosate safe? We have the right to know

    16 Dec 2017

    By Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino In November 2017, after a great deal of political maneuvering, the EU Member States decided to extend authorization for glyphosate, the world...

    Tags: Consumers, EFSA, European Parliament, Glyphosate, MEP, Pesticides, Roundup

  • German vote swings EU decision on 5-year glyphosate renewal

    28 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (27 November) on a five-year renewal period for the controversial herbicide glyphosate, used by Monsanto in its Roundup product. The decision was ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs demand glyphosate phase-out, with full ban by end 2022

    24 Oct 2017

    Parliament backed a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022 and immediate restrictions on the use of the substance, on Tuesday.   Read the full article on Eur...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Andriukaitis: ‘Enough’ with member states hiding behind the Commission on glyphosate

    10 Oct 2017

    The member states should stop hiding behind or even pointing the finger at the European Commission regarding the re-authorisation of the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, gl...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs reject Commission’s endocrine disruptor definition

    09 Oct 2017

    The European Commission will have to rewrite its definition of endocrine disruptors, after MEPs shot down the executive’s proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (4 October...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Endocrine disruptors: A guilty definition

    04 Oct 2017

    French socialist MEPs are defiant against the Commission’s “weak, superficial and incomplete” definition of endocrine disruptors, blaming it on French Ecology Minister Nicol...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study

    19 Sep 2017

    Exclusive: EU’s food safety watchdog recommended that glyphosate was safe but pages of report were identical to application from pesticide maker. Read the full article on The Gua...

    Tags: EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup

  • Des experts européens ont sous-estimé des études sur les dangers du glyphosate

    31 May 2017

    Des études qui mettent en évidence le lien entre plusieurs cas de cancer et le glyphosate ont été sous-estimées par les agences d’expertise européennes. C’est ce que rév...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate

  • Glyphosate and the crucial battle for independent science

    27 Mar 2017

    At its core, the political battle for transparency about the herbicide glyphosate is actually a battle for independent science and for the transparent and democratic functioning of...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, MEP, Pesticides

  • Brussels promises hormone disruptors definition ‘by this summer’

    04 Mar 2016

    The European Commission has responded to criticism over its weaknesses on health and food safety with a series of goodwill gestures on hormone disruptors and glyphosate during a vi...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, Glyphosate, Hormone

  • MEPs object to three GM soybean authorisations

    03 Feb 2016

    The EU Commission should not authorize the use of glyphosate-tolerant GM soybeans in food and feed, said Parliament on Wednesday. MEPs note that glyphosate, a herbicide, is classif...

    Tags: European Commission, European Parliament, Glyphosate, GMO, WHO

  • EU food safety watchdog hits back at scientists in glyphosate spat

    13 Jan 2016

    The head of Europe’s food safety watchdog has written to a group of nearly 100 senior scientists strongly rejecting their criticisms in an ongoing row about the safety of wee...

    Tags: EFSA, Glyphosate

  • Glyphosate: EFSA responds to critics

    13 Jan 2016

    EFSA has replied to criticism of the EU assessment of glyphosate that was overseen by the Authority last year. Read their reply here....

    Tags: EFSA, Glyphosate

  • EU scientists advise higher safety limits on glyphosate weedkiller

    12 Nov 2015

    Glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer in humans, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which proposed higher limits on Thursday (12 November) on the amount of re...

    Tags: EFSA, Glyphosate

  • Rue du Taciturne, 50 / Willem de Zwijgerstraat, 50
    1000 Brussels
    Belgium
    B.C.E. : 0578.909.064
    Tel:+32 (0) 2 898 38 38

  • SAFE – Safe Food Advocacy Europe is financially funded by the European Union in the framework of the ESF+ Operating Grant. Views and opinions expressed are those of Safe Food Advocacy Europe only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them

    ESF-2021-OG-NETW-NGO-SGA

Copyright © 2023 SAFE | Privacy Policy | Cookie Notice | Developed by ALYS

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}