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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Bayer said it will appeal a jury verdict from a local court in Philadelphia awarding $175 million, including $150 million in punitive damages,to an 83-year-old city resident who claimed exposure to Roundup caused his cancer.
The House Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to decide which proposed amendments to the fiscal 2024 Agriculture spending will get debated on the House floor.
A European Food Safety Authority review did not find “any critical areas of concern” in a peer review it conducted of a risk assessment of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as the European Union prepares to vote later this year on the future of the herbicide on the continent.
Representatives of major pesticide and biotech seed companies gathered earlier this month in Mexico City to meet with Mexican ag groups and U.S. and Canadian government officials to flesh out concerns about the potential impacts of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign against genetically modified corn and glyphosate, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings in Mexico.
