Three and a half hours of public hearings on the Monsanto Papers revelations did not suffice at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday 11 October to shed light on possible influence from the US agrichemical giant, Monsanto, on regulators on either side of the Atlantic or possible gaps in risk assessment of the glyphosate active substance in the EU.
After the hearing, the two S&D MEPs who had organised it, Belgium’s Tarabella and France’s Éric Andrieu, said that a parliamentary...