July 25th, 2019 NUI Galway is looking for volunteers to take part in the first Irish study to investigate the levels of glyphosate exposure on families. Researchers will collect and analyse urine samples from 50 non-farm families and 50 farm families for glyphosate. Each family – two parents and one Read more…
December 14th, 2018 Scientists from NUI Galway have found low levels of glyphosate exposure among professional gardeners and amenity horticultural workers in Ireland following four years of research. The results of the breakthrough study– published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health – indicate that low levels of Read more…
August 24th, 2018 Earlier this month, a San Francisco court ordered Monsanto to pay out $289m to a terminally ill man after a jury unanimously agreed that the giant agrochemical company was responsible for causing his cancer. The cause of plaintiff Dewayne Johnson’s cancer, the jury determined, was exposure to Read more…
August 11th, 2018 Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m in damages to a former school groundskeeper who was diagnosed with cancer after repeated use of the company’s popular Roundup herbicide. In a landmark ruling yesterday, a San Francisco jury unanimously found that Monsanto was responsible for Dewayne Johnson’s cancer, Read more…
August 8th, 2018 The license for glyphosate was renewed for five years last November by the European Commission. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in over 750 products including Roundup and is often sprayed as a pre-harvest drying treatment on food crops. The EU risk assessment process of renewing the substance’s Read more…
August 8th, 2018 The European Commission looks set to make France the new lead evaluator in an overhaul of the safety assessment of the controversial weedkiller chemical, glyphosate. The license for glyphosate was renewed for five years last November, with a last-minute U-turn by Germany, the current safety evaluator, ensuring Read more…
May 22nd, 2018 The Irish adult population is subject to low non-occupational exposure of glyphosate, a novel study from NUI Galway has found. The results of the first Irish study on exposure to glyphosate, an active ingredient in chemical pesticides used to control weeds, are now published in the journal Read more…
November 28th, 2017 Members States yesterday voted to accept the European Commission’s proposal to renew the license for glyphosate for an additional five years. At the Appeal Committee meeting yesterday morning, Member State representatives passed the renewal with 18 in favour, nine against and one abstained. The European Commission originally looked Read more…
November 9th, 2017 The European Commission and the EU Member States have again failed to agree on the European Commission’s proposal for a five-year extension for glyphosate. A vote on the proposal at this morning’s meeting of the Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed failed to a reach Read more…
October 25th, 2017 The much-anticipated vote by the EU Member States on the European Commission’s proposal for a ten-year extension for glyphosate failed to go ahead today as planned. The European Commission said in a statement that the Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed did not vote on Read more…
