Dr Andreas Hensel, President of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für risikobewertung – BfR), has declined the invitation to take part in the hearing on the Monsanto Papers organised by the European Parliament’s environment and agriculture committees on 11 October. BfR played a key role, however, in the European risk assessment of glyphosate. His refusal to attend, on the grounds that BfR “has nothing to do with the Monsanto Papers”, demands a robust...