It is a flat refusal that European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis gave MEPs on Tuesday 13 November, in response to their alarm at the relaunch of the procedure for glyphosate authorisation (possibly for ten years in the EU) – despite the opinions of the European agencies contradicting that of the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, and despite the revelations of the Monsanto Papers.
Whatever happens, the Commission trusts the assessments of...