#11 Martin Pigeon (CEO) Presentation EU Parliament Hearing on Glyphosate

Video #11 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 Martin Pigeon of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making.

In his presentation, Mr. Pigeon outlines problems with the EU’s assessment of pesticides, using the glyphosate assessment as the backdrop for his arguments. One problem cited by Pigeon is that agencies like the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) don’t have the resources or the legal means to achieve its mission. This, according to Pigeon, was a big factor in the copy/paste scandal involving EFSA and BfR (Germany’s federal institute for health risk assessment).

“BfR simply edited industry’s assessment of glyphosate instead of writing its own. That assessment became the official EU assessment,” said Pigeon.

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