May 16, 2016 | Featured, Reports
Green MEPs have today received test results confirming the presence of unsafe levels of the ‘probably carcinogenic’ weedkiller glyphosate in their urine. Source: www.greenparty.org.uk Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide. However, glyphosate does more... 
Apr 12, 2016 | Featured, Reports
Roughly 150 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are taking a urine test today and tomorrow to see if glyphosate—the cancer-linked weedkiller—is in their system. Source: https://ecowatch.com/2016/04/11/meps-test-urine-glyphosate/ According to The Guardian, the... 
Mar 28, 2016 | Featured, Reports
Brighton and Hove City Council in the UK has voted overwhelmingly to seek alternatives to glyphosate for killing weeds in public areas, citing the IARC’s 2015 finding that the chemical is “probably carcinogenic”. Source: www.hortweek.com The move... 
Mar 14, 2016 | Featured, Reports
The herbicide glyphosate can enter the body through food or drinking water. A new study has shown that the majority of Germans have been contaminated by the compound. EurActiv Germany reports. A worrying three-quarters of the German population have in fact been... 
Mar 11, 2016 | Featured, Reports
Regional environment ministers in the Brussels and Wallonia jurisdictions in Belgium have said they will ban glyphosate – a pesticide which some say probably causes cancer and whose EU stamp of approval is up for renewal.... 
Feb 5, 2016 | Featured, Reports
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is calling on Europe’s most influential cancer societies to urge governments to put an immediate ban on glyphosate, a chemical used as a herbicide. In a letter sent on World Cancer Day (4 February) from HEAL’s President, Dr...