No agreement on herbicide

brussels - The EU countries are also Monday not reached a common position on the controversial herbicide glyphosate. The permit for the pesticide expires on 1 July. The impasse lasts a while.

The European Commission proposed to extend last week for the authorization to eighteen months until a new opinion is about the degree of carcinogenicity of the pesticide. Member States' experts are still divided. Later this month a new round of voting.

Brussels wants that the use is minimized in parks, playgrounds and gardens, as well as the spraying on fields just before being harvested. The European Parliament also wants such use is prohibited. However, the agricultural sector, the food supply in jeopardy without glyphosate.
  
    
     
      
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Glyphosate is including in the herbicide Roundup. The pesticide has been over forty years in the market. The presence of glyphosate in the body is caused by exposure through diet and by weed control. In the Netherlands, the water companies have repeatedly beaten alarm about glyphosate. In the last five years exceeded the standard in drinking water sources, more than 100 times. Water must therefore be purified extra.

Greenpeace fears that the European Commission's plea remains anyway permit. That would be outrageous, but not uncommon, says the environmental organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations think it onwaarschijnlijkis that glyphosate is carcinogenic for humans, but scientific reports continue to contradict each other here.

It did not even Greenpeace to provide 161 000 signatures to parliament in May calling for a Dutch ban on the herbicide. The action proved vain. Van Dam State Secretary for Economic Affairs has said that he will advocate at European level, the return of the product.