While Neonics Face Battle, Glyphosate's Future Promising in EU

摘要

FILTER OUT the noise, and there it is: Science is poised to trump emotion in Europe — at least when it comes to glyphosate.Despite fears that European farmers would lose the active after regulators failed to renew its reauthorization and instead issued an 18-month extension until the end of 2017, saying they needed additional data, it appears its future on the continent is solid.It was IARC's classification of glyphosate as a "probable human carcinogen" that grabbed all the headlines — never mind thatmainstream media, more often than not, omitted the fact that I ARC places things like red meat, barbeques, and the hairdressing profession into the same category.