The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Commission explained at length and stoutly defended on Thursday 12 April the system for authorising pesticides in the EU and affirmed that the legal framework in place had been scrupulously followed in the renewal of the authorisation of the glyphosate licence.
When faced with the barrage of questions from the European Parliament’s PEST special committee, beginning its efforts to get to the bottom of how pesticides are authorised...