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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 19, 2024
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.
Bayer is hailing a decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its judgment in a case involving the question of whether federal pesticide law trumps state failure-to-warn claims.
Higher herbicide prices driven by supply shortages helped drive Bayer earnings above analysts’ estimates for the third quarter, as the company’s crop science division achieved an overall sales increase of 8.4% from the third quarter in 2021, to more than $4.7 billion.
The upcoming election could further shrink Democratic representation of rural areas in the House of Representatives, making it more difficult for agriculture advocates and the pesticide industry to find lawmakers who can get federal regulators’ attention.
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an interim decision for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and says it will complete its registration review in 2026.
The Supreme Court has rejected Monsanto’s second petition seeking review of a decision that found the nation’s pesticide law does not pre-empt state-law claims that Roundup was misbranded because it did not carry a cancer warning.
