News Headline
Failure to end use of toxic herbicide glyphosate 'nothing short of scandalous'
Source
Ecologist (UK)
Publication Date
2017-11-28
A qualified majority of EU countries agreed the reauthorisation of Europe’s most used weedkiller, glyphosate, this week. After months of wrangling and a failure by EU nations to agree its fate, the Appeal Committee, consisting of experts from EU countries together with the European Commission, agreed to renew the license for this toxic herbicide for another five years.