EU agencies push back glyphosate assessment to mid-2023

 

Due to an unprecedented flood of stakeholder input, relevant EU agencies announced their risk assessment on glyphosate will only come in mid-2023, even though the herbicide’s current approval will expire by the end of this year.

The EU’s chemicals agency (ECHA) and Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are currently assessing the potential health and environmental risks linked to the controversial substance.

As the EU’s current authorisation for glyphosate as an active substance in plant protection is set to expire by December, the agencies’ assessment was originally set to come in time to inform the decision for or against renewing the approval.

However, EFSA and ECHA announced on Tuesday (10 May) that they had revised the timeline for the assessment and would not finalise the process before July 2023. (...)