EU Watchdog Under Fire for Monsanto Analysis Copy/Pasted into Roundup Safety Report

‘Europe’s food safety agency reportedly relied on a review that lifted language from a Monsanto report when concluding that the possible cancer-causing ingredient in the company’s popular weed-killer Roundup is safe, raising concerns that the agency failed to properly analyze the pesticide’s potential dangers.
“If regulators rely on the industry’s evaluation of the science without doing their own assessment, the decision whether pesticides are deemed safe or not is effectively in the industry’s hands,” said Greenpeace’s European Union (EU) food policy director, Franziska Achterberg, who added that this discovery “calls into question the entire EU pesticide approval process.”
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) official stance on glyphosate—Roundup’s key ingredient that the World Health Organization determined is “probably carcinogenic to humans”—is likely to influence an upcoming, hotly contested vote by the 28 EU member states over whether to approve a 10-year renewal of the pesticide’s license.’
Read more: EU Watchdog Under Fire for Monsanto Analysis Copy/Pasted into Roundup Safety Report