EU CHIEFS defied the will of the European Parliament yesterday by announcing a push to extend use of a weedkiller linked to cancer in humans.
European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis called for a “limited extension of the current approval” for the herbicide glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer evaluates as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
Campaigns for the herbicide to be banned have led member-state governments to hesitate over the Commission’s bid to see it approved again.
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