SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment

EFSA gives point-by-point defence of glyphosate opinion

Brussels, 13/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - The response from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to scientific criticism of its opinion on the pesticide glyphosate was not long in coming, published as it was on Wednesday 13 January. It had to be swift, as European Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis announced on 5 January (see EUROPE 11461).

EFSA, which stood accused by Swiss professor Christopher J. Portier of delivering a “biased and misleading” scientific...