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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, September 11, 2019)\u00a0Germany is the latest entity to take action on getting glyphosate-based pesticides<\/a> out of the marketplace. Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that, beginning in 2020, the country will phase out herbicides that contain glyphosate<\/a> by the end of 2023. The phase-out will occur through a series of scheduled reductions in amounts allowed for use, with a goal of a 75% reduction over the next four years. The announcement comes<\/a> after \u201cnation-wide protests and demands from [Merkel\u2019s] junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, for more decisive action on environmental issues.\u201d This action stands in telling contrast to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA\u2019s) repeated failures<\/a> to protect people, ecosystems, and our food supply, from this toxic compound.<\/p>\n

The German government also plans to oppose any European Union (EU) request for renewal of licensing of these herbicides, according to the environment ministry. Bayer AG, maker of glyphosate-based herbicides and owner of original manufacturer Monsanto, has pushed back, saying that the government is \u201cgetting ahead of itself\u201d by banning glyphosate-based herbicides prior to any decision by the relevant EU authority, and that EU laws disallow unilateral decisions by member states. (Pesticide licensing decisions lie with EU governance in Brussels, the de facto capital of the EU, rather than with EU member countries.)<\/p>\n

Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner emphasized<\/a> that, although glyphosate products are currently legal under EU law (until December of 2022), German farming policies will continue to become \u201cgreener.\u201d Germany\u2019s Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze, said at a news conference in Berlin,<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t expect that there will be a majority anywhere in the EU for glyphosate after 2022.\u201d The government\u2019s move is particularly noteworthy because Monsanto, which developed glyphosate and marketed it as the ubiquitous and infamous Roundup herbicide, was bought in 2018 by Bayer<\/a> \u2014 a German company. This development adds to the uphill slog the company faces in keeping its products viable, given the recent plethora of developments<\/a> related to the toxic compound.<\/p>\n

Monsanto\u2019s patent on glyphosate expired in 2015, so dozens of other chemical companies, including BASF and Dow Agrosciences, now market herbicides based on this active ingredient; they are the most commonly applied herbicides worldwide. Concern about glyphosate-based pesticides swelled when the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen<\/a>. Beyond Pesticides has covered the relationship of glyphosate (and the\u00a0adjuvant ingredients in formulations<\/a>) to\u00a0cancer,<\/a>\u00a0endocrine disruption,\u00a0reproduction,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0renal and hepatic damage,<\/a>\u00a0not to mention its\u00a0toxicity to fish and other aquatic organisms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contrary to scientific consensus<\/a> and to the IARC\u2019s conclusions, EPA has decided that glyphosate formulations are \u201cnot likely to be carcinogenic to humans,\u201d as it posited in a decision announced in May 2019<\/a>. EPA took this step even in the face of an April 2019 report by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry<\/a> (ATSDR) \u2014 an agency of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services \u2014 which evidenced findings that support glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity.<\/p>\n

Among the cascade of developments since IARC\u2019s designation have been the more than 13,000 lawsuits<\/a> brought against Monsanto\/Bayer. The premier one of those, which has helped catalyze a veritable tsunami of others, was the suit in which California groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson prevailed<\/a> in his contention that his occupational exposure to Monsanto\u2019s Roundup had caused him to develop non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma (NHL). The plaintiff was awarded $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages by a jury in California State Superior Court in San Francisco County; Judge Suzanne Bolanos later upheld the verdict but reduced the punitive amount to $39 million, for a total award of $78 million. The first glyphosate case in federal court<\/a> was decided in March 2019 in favor of plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, who also developed NHL after decades of mixing and using Roundup on their extensive home property; the jury in that case awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages. As noted, there is a very long queue of other plaintiffs bringing suit related to the harms of glyphosate exposure.<\/p>\n

EPA\u2019s intransigence on the glyphosate issue is underscored with every effort by other entities to recognize glyphosate\u2019s health<\/a> and environmental<\/a> threats, and to rein in use of the toxic chemical. In addition to Germany\u2019s announcement, some of those recent efforts include: a 2016 call by scientists to reconsider permitting<\/a> of the compound; a 2019 University of California ban<\/a> on use of glyphosate on its 10 campuses; a major pesticide supplier\u2019s discontinuing sales of glyphosate products<\/a> because its insurer, in the face of that tsunami of litigation, refused to insure the company if it continued sales; a bill passed in July 2019 by Austria\u2019s lower house of parliament banning all glyphosate<\/a> uses; bans instituted in August 2019 by 20 French mayors<\/a> in their municipalities in defiance of federal regulations; and a French court\u2019s January 2019 yanking of the license for a Roundup product<\/a>. Just days ago, 16 stakeholders \u2014 health, environmental, farmer, and farmworker communities \u2014 called for EPA to remove glyphosate from the marketplace<\/a>. These stakeholderss cite the critical mass of high-profile lawsuits, environmental impacts, increasing reports of weed resistance, and growing public concern over the health effects of glyphosate in their comments on EPA\u2019s interim reregistration review decision for the chemical.<\/p>\n

Advocates say that EPA has a dismal record on glyphosate-based formulations \u2014 and on many other pesticides. This record has been more extreme during the tenure of the Trump administration, which has since 2017 worked to loosen and\/or revoke regulation it perceives as \u201cunfriendly\u201d to industry<\/a>. But EPA has for many more years been inadequate to the task of protecting the public and the environment from the compound\u2019s impacts. Beyond the current administration\u2019s industry-friendly machinations, Beyond Pesticides has noted and explained EPA\u2019s failures as, fundamentally, basic inadequacies of the risk assessment paradigm EPA uses for regulating toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n

That paradigm arises from the overarching pesticide law,<\/a> the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). One area of inadequacy lies in its distinctions between \u201cactive\u201d ingredients (such as glyphosate) and \u201cinert\u201d ingredients, the latter of which get inadequate review compared to that for \u201cactive\u201d ingredients. Inert ingredients are not required to be listed on product labels because they are considered \u201cproprietary\u201d manufacturer information, a concerning lack of transparency for the public. EPA\u2019s assessment strategy is not \u201cholistic,\u201d but instead, employs a chemical-by-chemical approach.<\/p>\n

Further, the agency depends in significant part on industry-generated research<\/a> in its regulatory decisions.\u00a0It also does not systematically address evidence of epigenetic\/multi-generational impacts<\/a> of, for example, glyphosate exposures. Another failure of the regulatory paradigm, as set out in Beyond Pesticides\u2019 report<\/a>, Thinking Holistically When Making Land Management Decisions<\/em>, is the \u201cfailure of the current laws and regulatory review to consider complex ecological impacts of pesticides. These effects are not captured in current ecological risk assessments, even though interactions among pesticides and their cumulative impacts are devastating to ecological balance and health.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gaining momentum against use of glyphosate-based herbicides is good news. The ultimate solution is, of course, ceasing to use toxic chemicals for most pest issues in agriculture, land management, and building contexts. Organic, mechanical, and biologic approaches<\/a> are available for most of the problems industry wants to fix chemically. Please stay engaged and informed on these issues with Beyond Pesticides<\/a>\u2019 many resources, including its Daily News Blog<\/a>, its journal, Pesticides and You<\/em><\/a>, its Programs and Resources web pages, and its newest initiative: Organic Eye<\/a> \u2014 a Beyond Pesticides watchdog agency that will focus on defending the time-honored philosophy and legal definition of organic farming and food production.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-04\/germany-cabinet-aims-to-reduce-glyphosate-usage-in-coming-years<\/a><\/p>\n

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The German government also plans to oppose any European Union (EU) request for renewal of licensing of these herbicides, according to the environment ministry. Bayer AG, maker of glyphosate-based herbicides and owner of original manufacturer Monsanto, has pushed back, saying that the government is \u201cgetting ahead of itself\u201d by banning glyphosate-based herbicides prior to any decision by the relevant EU authority, and that EU laws disallow unilateral decisions by member states. 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