Weedkillers: Licensing

(asked on 12th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to review the licensing of glyphosate herbicides.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 12th October 2018

Herbicides can only be sold and used if their active substances (such as glyphosate) are approved at EU level and if the products are authorised nationally. Approval and authorisation are only granted if scientific risk assessments demonstrate that the intended use will not harm human health or have an unacceptable effect on the environment.

Glyphosate was approved at EU level at the end of 2017. The UK supported this decision on the basis that the scientific assessment was satisfactory. As is required following a new or renewed approval, the UK regulator is currently reviewing the authorisations for all glyphosate products.

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