Extension of the approval period of glyphosate
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At the meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed held on 14 October 2022, Member States voted on a draft Commission Implementing Regulation proposing to extend the existing approval of glyphosate by one year in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
Although a clear majority of Member States supported the proposal, a qualified majority was not achieved and no opinion was reached.
The Commission has referred the draft Regulation to the Appeal Committee (which will be convened in mid-November) for further deliberation.
The current planning by EFSA indicates that its conclusions on the peer review will be available in July 2023.
This extension is without prejudice to the decision on whether the approval of glyphosate can be renewed or not, which can only be taken once the scientific evaluation will have been completed.
Glyphosate:
Glyphosate is an active substance used in PPPs to control plants, which means it's a herbicide.
Glyphosate is the most frequently used herbicide both worldwide and in the EU and it has been used for several decades.
Glyphosate has been thoroughly assessed by Member States, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Food Safety AuthoritySearch (EFSA) in recent years.
Glyphosate-based pesticides are used as herbicides in agriculture, horticulture and in some non-cultivated areas. They are used primarily to combat weeds that compete with cultivated crops or present problems for other reasons (e.g. on railway tracks). They are typically applied before crops are sown to control weeds and therefore facilitate better growth of crops by eliminating competing plants. This eliminates or minimizes the need to use ploughing machines ("zero tillage" farming), thereby reducing soil erosion and carbon emissions.
Glyphosate is also used to a lesser extent as a pre-harvest treatment to facilitate better harvesting by regulating plant growth and ripening. The active substance is mostly known under the brand “Roundup” among the farmers.
Glyphosate
Glyphosate is mainly found in food products :
Lentils
Organic Lentils
Buck wheat
Glyphosate detected in lentils, buckwheat, moringa leaf in official reports published from 2010 till today.
Glyphosate detected in lentils, buckwheat, moringa leaf in official reports published from 2010 till today
Source: RASFF
After the peek rise of Glyphosate in 2011 again there were repeated notifications in June 2022 where glyphosate was detected in buckwheat from Poland related to both food and feed products. Through the iComplai platform you can:
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References:
https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-withdraws-glyphosate-interim-decision