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#12 Tim Bowmer (ECHA) Presentation EU Parliament Hearing on Glyphosate
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12:21Now PlayingVideo #12 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 Tim Bowmer, chairman of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment. In his presentation, Mr. Bowmer walks through ECHA’s policies and practices for evaluating chemicals, as well as ECHA’s evaluation of glyphosate.
Of note in his presentation, Mr. Bowmer said laws in the EU protect the proprietary rights of study owners. “That is something that we as agencies actually can’t get around,” Bowmer said.
The importance of this cannot be understated: the general public and independent scientists do not have access to the raw data, which makes transparency in the process difficult. This topic is further explored by MEPs and other presenters in the hearing Q&A’s.
For all other videos from the EU Parliament Hearing on the Monsanto Papers, please visit the Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman YouTube page.
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