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#4 Jose Tarazona (EFSA) Presentation EU Parliament Hearing on Glyphosate
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16:51Now PlayingVideo #4 of 14 from European Parliament Hearing on the Monsanto Papers and Glyphosate, © European Union, 2017
On Oct. 12, 2017, European Parliament held a public hearing discussing the Monsanto Papers and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer.
Glyphosate is the most widely-used agricultural chemical in the world. However, concerns have been raised over the chemical’s link to cancer.
In this hearing held by the Environment (ENVI) and Agriculture (AGRI) Committees in the EU Parliament, legislators, public health advocates, scientists and others convened to provide expert analysis on glyphosate, with particular attention paid to the stunning revelations from the Monsanto Papers, which can be viewed in their entirety here
The video above includes a presentation by Jose Tarazona, head of the pesticides unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). During his presentation, Tarazona detailed the process for EFSA’s assessment of glyphosate and included how the agency arrived at its conclusion that glyphosate “does not require classification for carcinogenicity.”
In September of 2017, news agencies reported that EFSA copied and pasted analyses from a Monsanto study in its safety report on glyphosate, a charge that Tarazona refuted in his presentation. “There has been allegations of copy and paste, of plagiarism by people that do not understand the process,” Tarazona said.
Of note in his discussion before EU Parliament, Tarazona said that EFSA did identify possible genotoxicity for the formulations of glyphosate-based herbicides, which includes Roundup. Tarazona said the finding was unrelated to glyphosate, rather, it was related to other chemicals that some formulations include.
Tarazona also said that EFSA “identified risk for farmers and the environment, but risk that can be mitigated, and we are clearly recommending that [EU] member states consider very carefully those elements in their assessments and to ensure that the risks for the farmers and the environment are covered in the authorizations.”
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