On Monday, in a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, Solicitor General John Sauer, appointed by the Trump administration in April, told the court it should take up an appeal from Bayer that the company hopes could help it quash ongoing lawsuits inherited when it bought Monsanto in 2018, The New Lede said in another article.
As DTN reported, the Solicitor General on Monday argued that when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created specific labeling requirements when it determined glyphosate is “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans” consistently since 1991, it approved Roundup labels without cancer warnings and prohibited Bayer from adding warnings without agency approval.
But EPA is in the midst of its registration review process for glyphosate, which happens every 15 years, AgFunder News said in an analysis.
Bayer told AgFunder News: “Glyphosate is the most extensively studied herbicide over the past 50 years. Thousands of studies have been conducted on the safety of glyphosate products. The vast majority of published studies on glyphosate had no Monsanto involvement.”
“Regarding this specific Williams et al paper, we believe Monsanto’s involvement was appropriately cited in the acknowledgments, which clearly states: ‘We thank the toxicologists and other scientists at Monsanto who made significant contributions to the development of exposure assessments and through many other discussions,’ and further identifies several ‘key personnel at Monsanto who provided scientific support.'”
Health Canada said Thursday that its decision to approve glyphosate will not be affected by this development, The Canadian Press reported.
Health Canada said in a written statement that “the retraction of this review does not affect our previous review conclusions” because the department also independently evaluated the primary data sources used in the 2000 review paper, The Canadian Press added.
DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton contributed to this report.
See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/….
The New Lede: https://www.thenewlede.org/….
Also see, “US Solicitor General Backs Bayer’s Supreme Court Bid to End Roundup Lawsuits,” https://www.dtnpf.com/….
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