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By: Dr. Chuck Benbrook Many people ask me — Why the big punitive damage awards in the Roundup-Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL) litigation? Easy answer — Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) lousy product “stewardship” behavior. Company representatives and others up and down the herbicide supply chain have been reassuring Roundup users for almost a half-century that Roundup is as […]
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I am flabbergasted at this decision. There is NOTHING — ZERO — in the EPA decision to reduce worker exposures and risks. How can EPA ignore the thousands of comments, including my own, highlighting the need for EPA to recover its spine and require Bayer/Monsanto and other registrants to take out the high-risk surfactants in […]
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The public comment period on EPA’s proposed re-registration of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) closed on September 3, 2019. The Agency has received well over 300,000 comments, including 31-pages worth from Hygeia’s Dr. Charles Benbrook. Benbrook’s submitted comments draw on his work over many years on the impact of GBH use on weed management systems and herbicide […]
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A Scientific American piece on neonicotinoid insecticides begins with a fascinating story about a wildlife rehab clinic in Montana. In the 1990s, a “bizarre trend” was noticed — an unusual number and diversity of birth defects in roadkill deer and other big game autopsied at the clinic. Scientists at the clinic pondered what could have […]
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In a carefully orchestrated exchange during an April 9, 2019 House Appropriations Committee hearing, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue asserted that Europe is an “[ag] technology-free zone” and will pay a big price as agricultural productivity suffers. What prompted this striking assertion? Coverage of the Secretary’s comments in EURACTIV.com identifies what prompted the […]
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The U.S. federal pesticide law is called the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or FIFRA. Ever wonder why FIFRA seems so feckless in dealing with the deepening economic, ecological, and public health problems arising from excessive reliance on herbicides in major row-crop weed management systems? Might no “H” in FIFRA have something to do […]
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The first in a series of monthly blogs by Dr. Benbrook was posted this week to the UK Soil Association’s website. They are a non-profit supporting sustainable and organic agriculture, who also serve as the primary organic certification body in the UK. Dr. Benbrook’s first guest blog is called “U.S. must shift towards agroecology.” It […]
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The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) issued a February 11, 2019 report highlighting information from its post in Berlin. The focus — US exports of mostly fresh organic fruits, vegetables, and milk. Data on processed organic food exports to Europe from the US is not as readily available, so many product categories are not covered […]
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We have posted a summary of an important report from a European think tank — “An agroecological Europe in 2050: multifunctional agriculture for healthy eating. Findings from the Ten Years For Agroecology (TYFA) “. This report that lays out a concrete plan — and path — toward a safer, sustainable agricultural system that promotes human […]
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IARC vs. EPA Genotoxicity Paper “How did the U.S. EPA and IARC reach diametrically opposed conclusions on the genotoxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides?“, Environmental Sciences Europe, January 15, 2019, DOI: 10.1186/s12302-018-0184-7. By: Charles Benbrook, PhD Access paper (free) Access Supplemental Tables Access Editorial Statement “Some food for thought – A short comment on Charles Benbrook’s paper […]
