The parry and thrust of questions and answers was particularly lively and positions entrenched in the hearing before the European Parliament’s PEST special committee of a representative of the German federal risk-assessment institute, the BfR, which played a key role in the procedure for the renewal of the glyphosate licence in the EU, representatives of the pesticides industry and two scientists on Tuesday 15 May.
While the BfR stated that it had done its work properly as the competent...