Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, attending the meeting of the European Parliament agriculture committee on 13 November to present the conclusions of the Commission report on the implementation of the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides (see EUROPE 11898), was challenged on glyphosate by a number of MEPs.
He vigorously rejected their criticisms, slamming the “conspiracy theory” of machinations by multinational companies to influence EU decisions and defending the...