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Linking legislation, education, community and advocacy for Clean Food Earth.Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.comBlogger1920125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-85242511291751392292019-03-22T10:22:00.002-07:002019-03-22T10:22:58.074-07:00Two For Two with 11,000 on Deck - Glyphosate Getting Clobbered<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Federal jury’s decision in case of man who said he used Roundup (key ingredient: glyphosate) for decades will likely affect thousands of other plaintiffs</span></b><br /><br />A federal jury in San Francisco found Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide was a substantial factor in causing the cancer of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</a> man, in a landmark verdict that could affect hundreds of other cases.</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Edwin Hardeman of Santa Rosa was the first person to challenge Monsanto’s Roundup in a federal trial and alleged that his exposure to Roundup caused him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), a cancer that affects the immune system.<br /><br />In the next phase of the case, the jury will weigh liability and damages, and Hardeman’s lawyers will present arguments about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.<br /><br />During the trial, the 70-year-old Santa Rosa man testified that he had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/05/monsanto-roundup-trial-cancer-weed-killer">sprayed the herbicide for nearly three decades</a> and at one time got it on his skin before he was diagnosed with cancer. He used the chemical to control weeds and poison oak on his properties, starting in 1986.</span></span></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-78598724135547066262019-03-22T10:14:00.001-07:002019-03-22T10:14:22.630-07:00UK Kicks GLYPHOSATE & Pesticides to the Rubbish Bin<div class="fusion-post-title-meta-wrap" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #636363; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 28px;">
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The <a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Pesticide-Free Towns</a> movement is gathering pace across the UK as public concern about the use of <a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/glyphosate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">glyphosate</a> and other pesticides in our parks, playgrounds and streets continues to grow.</div>
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Not long after the recent news from the <a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/croydon-ends-glyphosate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">London Borough of Croydon</a>, which has ended the use of pesticides in all its public parks and green spaces, we have news from three major UK cities that are switching to pesticide-free: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bristol, Derry and Trafford, </span>joining the ranks of Hammersmith & Fulham, Lewes, Wadebridge, Glastonbury and others.</div>
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Unanimous, cross-party vote to phase out glyphosate in Bristol</h2>
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In January, at a full meeting of Bristol City Council, a Motion to phase out the use of glyphosate was adopted unanimously in a show of cross-party unity. The Motion called on Bristol Council to commit to phasing out pesticides over a three-year time period, starting with ending use in public parks and green spaces. It also called on the Council to establish a pesticide-free task force composed of council representatives, the <a href="http://www.pesticidesafebristol.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Pesticide Safe Bristol Alliance</a> and other key land managers from across the city. The aim of the task force is to encourage all land managers, not just the council, to come together to share experiences, overcome obstacles and share costs in order to make all of Bristol truly pesticide-free by the end of 2021.</div>
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This fantastic result was achieved by the <a href="http://www.pesticidesafebristol.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Pesticide Safe Bristol Alliance (PSBA)</a>, an initiative started by two Bristolian parents in 2015 after they grew alarmed at the use of glyphosate in local schools. Their campaigning attracted other concerned individuals and organisations from across Bristol. They organised petitions, awareness raising events, polled the opinions of Bristol residents and made strong alliances with elected Councillors. Despite several setbacks over the years they never gave up! It should also be mentioned that the Mayor of Bristol, Mervin Rees, was supportive of their objectives throughout. Bristol has certainly set the pace and is living up to its billing as one of the UK’s greenest cities.</div>
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Pink Ladies successfully campaign in Derry</h2>
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Meanwhile in Derry City, Northern Ireland, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinkladiesderry/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">The Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group</a>raised concerns about the use of glyphosate by Derry Council. They contacted Councillor Patricia Logue to ask if anything could be done about it. As a result a Motion, submitted in February, was put to the council and as with Bristol it <a href="https://www.derryjournal.com/news/weed-killer-pesticide-ban-call-1-8824795?fbclid=IwAR2bofxFAmo6k66FXVOY1TAjTyDnuqAABKbVkUX_Uj7pGAxlwQ5ZEZASF7k" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">passed unanimously</a>. The Council pledged to discontinue the use of glyphosate in all Council operations, also calling on sub-contractors employed by the Council to cease the use of glyphosate.</div>
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“I believe the council is supportive of our strategy locally and my city will be a safer place for not using this chemical. I’m pleased that the motion passed unanimously and unchallenged.”</div>
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The next steps for the Council are to roll out an education programme for council employees and contractors in the use of non-chemical alternatives to glyphosate and to turn the Motion into a long-term strategy document.</div>
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Trafford protects citizens and wildlife from urban pesticides</h2>
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Most recently, a Motion submitted by Green Councillor Dan Jerome and supported by the Liberal Democrats was submitted at a full Council meeting on 20<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.3333px;">th</span> March. The Motion called on Trafford Council to;</div>
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Dan Jerrome, Green Party councillor for Altrincham and motion proposer, said:</div>
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“The ban on glyphosate weed killers from all Trafford Council operations is a great victory for residents. It will mean our streets, parks and other communal spaces are no longer sprayed with potentially cancerous herbicides. We can now trial and implement biodegradable alternatives which will be better for wildlife too. Hopefully, this will inspire other councils in Greater Manchester to do the same.”</div>
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Again the Motion was adopted unopposed to the delight of those that had been campaigning for a ban.</div>
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Where is the campaign heading?</h2>
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So we have three major cities going pesticide-free in the first three months of 2019. All the Motions submitted to the Councils were adopted unopposed. This, we believe, shows both an understanding of the need to do things differently and the responsibility that Councils have for the well-being of their citizens.</div>
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PAN UK is aware of a number of other councils across the UK that are interested in following suit as increasingly public opinion, issues of worker safety and the impacts of pesticide use on urban biodiversity are driving them to look for alternatives to harmful pesticides.</div>
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With the support of the public and by working closely with elected councillors, contractors and suppliers of alternative technology we expect to see many more towns and cities announcing that they are ditching pesticides over the course of 2019.</div>
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Pesticide-free is possible!</div>
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Live in Brighton & Hove? Find out how you can support our local campaign <a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/brighton-and-hove/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">here</a>.</div>
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Source:<br /><a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free-towns-campaign-gains-momentum/">http://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free-towns-campaign-gains-momentum/</a><br />
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Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-9130759163245489792018-09-29T09:21:00.000-07:002018-09-29T10:06:52.486-07:00SCIENTIFIC REVIEW CITES MONSANTO GHOSTWRITING EVIDENCE IN "CORRECTION" ISSUED<span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: "google sans" , "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>CRT Correction of Glyphosate Review Only Tells Half the Story</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black;">CRT Correction of Glyphosate Review Only Tells Half the Story<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">Sept. 28, 2018 – Los Angeles, California - - </span></b><span style="color: black;">The academic journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology issued corrections yesterday for articles that were published in a 2016 supplemental issue dedicated to reviewing </span><span class="m_-5947581483801762536MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline;">the safety of </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/what-is-glyphosate-herbicide/&source=gmail&ust=1538322683672000&usg=AFQjCNFhgoSm3I1FpfCGqyvQiZIG1zoNgw" href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/what-is-glyphosate-herbicide/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer</a><span style="color: black;">.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>The corrections indicate that Monsanto did not fully disclose its involvement in the five articles published under the title, </b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>“An Independent Review of the Carcinogenic Potential of Glyphosate,” which concluded that glyphosate was not likely carcinogenic to humans. The review was written by expert panels overseen by Intertek, a consulting firm hired by Monsanto.</b><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535;">Critical Reviews in Toxicology’s publisher, Taylor & Francis, </span>issued a rare <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408444.2018.1522786&source=gmail&ust=1538322683672000&usg=AFQjCNG9fIrxDNHFp0zM1tyY_pR54v0leQ" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408444.2018.1522786" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">“Expression of Concern”</a> <span style="color: #353535;"> because the review authors failed to provide “an adequate explanation as to why the necessary level of transparency was not met on first submission.”</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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The journal’s correction <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/&source=gmail&ust=1538322683672000&usg=AFQjCNFJxGhN4rtqJqa7BvO8otAAMbUIYQ" href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">bolsters what Roundup cancer attorneys have been saying for years</a>: rather than informing consumers and the public about the link between Roundup and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Monsanto ghostwrote science and engaged in deceptive PR campaigns to create the impression that its blockbuster Roundup herbicide is safe.<u></u><u></u></div>
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This decision confirms, as we have long contended based on the documentary evidence, that Monsanto made substantial contributions to these manuscripts. However, while some of Monsanto’s involvement in these publications has been acknowledged in the corrections, the investigation by Taylor & Francis fell far short of revealing the extent to which Monsanto violated scientific standards and ethics in this “independent” review.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A US federal judge has imposed an indefinite stay on litigation challenging the state of California's decision to list the herbicide, glyphosate, as a cancer-causing chemical. US District Judge William Shubb last week granted California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG029991/California-asks-court-to-stay-glyphosate-cancer-listing-case&source=gmail&ust=1537038550949000&usg=AFQjCNHZFJwoIfFKGgdAOyaCMmKygoQx5g" href="https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG029991/California-asks-court-to-stay-glyphosate-cancer-listing-case" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #9e310d; text-decoration-line: none;">request</span></strong></a> for a stay, agreeing that the litigation should be put on hold until the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issues rulings in two other cases. They could provide legal guidance on the issue of compelled disclosure requirements.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Judge Shubb said that the stay is appropriate because the legal landscape has changed since he issued a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG029215/US-judge-shelves-Californias-glyphosate-cancer-warnings&source=gmail&ust=1537038550949000&usg=AFQjCNHZOJvpPiaMrM9IQBkC6WCdLMIu9Q" href="https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG029215/US-judge-shelves-Californias-glyphosate-cancer-warnings" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #9e310d; text-decoration-line: none;">preliminary injunction</span></strong></a> in February blocking the state from requiring cancer warnings on glyphosate products until the listing dispute has been resolved.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">California added glyphosate to its Proposition 65 list of cancer-causing chemicals in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG027986/California-ready-to-add-glyphosate-to-Prop-65-list&source=gmail&ust=1537038550949000&usg=AFQjCNFMgSxZuBmJI_b3OKzhHNsxiVY74A" href="https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG027986/California-ready-to-add-glyphosate-to-Prop-65-list" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #9e310d; text-decoration-line: none;">July 2017</span></strong></a>, relying on the UN WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) 2015 declaration that the herbicide was a “probable human carcinogen”. Monsanto (now owned by Bayer), the National Association of Wheat Growers and other agriculture interests filed <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG028705/US-farm-groupsMonsanto-challenge-California-glyphosate-listing&source=gmail&ust=1537038550949000&usg=AFQjCNFnuqmllhjynCpMvgPnAcgti3_EpA" href="https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG028705/US-farm-groupsMonsanto-challenge-California-glyphosate-listing" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #9e310d; text-decoration-line: none;">suit</span></strong></a> in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California, questioning the dependence on the IARC declaration and arguing that warning label requirements would violate their Constitutional protections for commercial speech under the First Amendment.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Judge Shubb explained that he had issued the injunction to block the warning labels because a cancer notice for glyphosate would not be "purely factually and uncontroversial" as the "heavy weight of evidence in the record" shows that the herbicide is not a human carcinogen.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">But one of the legal cases that provided guidance on how to interpret the legal standard for “purely factual and uncontroversial” was subsequently vacated by a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The Ninth Circuit is considering that case, which was brought by CTIA, the telecommunications industry’s trade group, in a bid to upend the city of Berkeley’s law requiring retailers to warn consumers of the potential radiation exposure from mobile phone usage.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Appeals Court is also considering another compelled disclosure case involving the American Beverage Association's challenge of San Francisco's ordinance that mandates warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks. Mr Becerra's motion for a stay cited both cases, suggesting that the glyphosate complaint should wait for the Ninth Circuit's rulings.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The plaintiffs objected and asked Judge Shubb to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG030120/Monsanto-contests-request-for-stay-of-glyphosate-cancer-listing-case&source=gmail&ust=1537038550949000&usg=AFQjCNHBMJJaKRCjwaMd8rv72Ljo3x4Bdg" href="https://agrow.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/AG030120/Monsanto-contests-request-for-stay-of-glyphosate-cancer-listing-case" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #9e310d; text-decoration-line: none;">deny</span></strong></a> the stay request, arguing that it would be unfair to their interests to put the glyphosate dispute in limbo until the Ninth Circuit acts.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Judge Shubb disagreed and said that as the two Ninth Circuit cases concerned the interpretation and application of the “purely factual and uncontroversial” requirement, new decisions in those cases would assist the Court in deciding any motion for summary judgment filed by the parties in the glyphosate case.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #58595b; font-family: "pt serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Further, the court has already granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the warning requirement as to glyphosate in this case,” he explained in the September 6th order. “Plaintiffs identify no prejudice from a stay other than uncertainty to their members due to further delay. This uncertainty is insufficient to outweigh the savings of time and effort for the Court and the parties that may be gained from staying this case pending further guidance from the Ninth Circuit in CTIA or American Beverage.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— For Landscaping & Maintenance on all City-Owned Properties —<br /><br />Today, the Miami Beach City Commission passed a resolution directing the city </span><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />manager to ban the use of herbicides containing glyphosate by all city employees and contractors in the performance of landscaping and maintenance work on all city-owned properties. <br /><br />“Glyphosate is a known carcinogen, and I’m pleased my colleagues unanimously agreed that we must eliminate its usage to protect our community,” said Miami Beach Commissioner Ricky Arriola. “As a father, especially, it is extremely important to know that when children are playing on our playgrounds or at our facilities, they are not harmed by this type of chemical”. <br /><br />In recent months, Monsanto, which manufacturers glyphosate-based weed killers such as Round-up and Ranger Pro, was acquired by Bayer who inherited approximately 8,000 lawsuits in both state and federal courts alleging cancer risks associated with the use of these products. In one recent case, a jury verdict of $289 million (approximately $250 million in punitive damages and $39 million in compensatory damages) was awarded to the plaintiff, a former school groundskeeper dying of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who used Roundup at work. The plaintiff proved to a jury that exposure to Roundup was a substantial contributing factor to his cancer and that Monsanto failed to warn consumers of the product’s cancer risk. <br /><br />Additionally, in a March 2015 report, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, is “probably carcinogenic in humans.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Friday, August 10, 2018 #MonsantoTrial Jury Verdict represents A BRAND NEW DAY!</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Jurors easily grasped the profound damage "Lee" Johnson has endured, contracting Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma after regular exposures to Roundup (the most widely used pesticide on Earth) at his job as </span><span style="font-family: Change Calibre, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem !important;">Grounds Keeper for Benicia CA Unified School District. We are forever grateful to these jurors and the magnificent legal team that brought this to trial!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: 1.25rem !important;">After 8 weeks of trial proceedings, the jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Monsanto Co. continues to refuse to warn consumers of the dangers of its multi-billion-dollar product Roundup despite the world’s foremost authority on cancer—the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—listing glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for providing a recap of the second day in court in the <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/man-vs-monsanto-first-trial-over-roundup-cancer-claims-set-begin">Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Co</a>. trial. Proceedings <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-trial-DeWayne-Johnson">began</a> in San Francisco Superior Court on Monday, July 9. The plaintiff, Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former school groundskeeper who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma four years ago, <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dewayne-Johnson-lawsuit.pdf">claims</a> Monsanto hid evidence that the active ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/glyphosate-fact-sheet">glyphosate</a>, caused his cancer. This is the first case to go to trial <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-allows-lawsuits-over-184420151.html">among hundreds</a> of lawsuits alleging Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The trial is expected to last about a month.<br /><br />My co-counsel, Brent Wisner from <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/">Baum Hedlund</a>, opened the testimony stage Tuesday morning with video deposition of Dr. Mark Martens, Monsanto’s former toxicology director. Under questioning by Aimee Wagstaff, Martens chronicled Monsanto’s herculean schemes to discredit a series of key animal studies published through the 1990s.<br /><br />Those studies linked Monsanto’s herbicide to genotoxicity, a potential precursor to cancer. Contemporary emails between Martens and Dr. Donna Farmer, product protection lead, discuss the need to “combat” the damning studies. The <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/monsanto-secret-documents/">emails</a> show <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/campaigns/millions-against-monsanto">Monsanto</a> hired Dr. James Parry, an esteemed independent genotoxicologist, to evaluate the 90s animal studies. Unhappy with his conclusions that also suggested that Roundup might cause cancer, the two Monsanto scientists schemed to persuade Dr. Parry to alter his conclusions.<br /><br />The email said:<br /><br />“It would take quite some time and money/studies to get him there. We simply aren’t going to do the studies Parry suggests… We should seriously start looking for one or more other individuals. We have not made much progress [in ginning up studies to prove RoundUp non-genotoxic] and are currently very vulnerable in this area.”<br /><br />In the end, Monsanto considered converting Parry too costly.<br /><br />Subsequent emails revealed during the afternoon video testimony of Monsanto’s Dr. William Heydens show that Monsanto ultimately rejected the strategy of bribing legitimate scientists (“We could be pushing $250K or maybe even more”) and concluded that:<br /><br />“a less expensive/more palatable approach might be to involve experts only for the areas of contention, epidemiology and possibly MOA [Mechanism of Action] (depending on what comes out of the IARC meeting), and we ghost-write the Exposure Tox & Genotox sections. An option would be to add [apparently independent tame Monsanto scientists] Greim and Kier or Kirkland to have their names on the publication, but we would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit and sign their names so to speak. Recall that is how we handled Williams Kroes & Monroe.”<br /><br />The Williams Kroes & Monroe paper, apparently ghostwritten by Monsanto per this email, has been a frequently cited analysis in the field of <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/glyphosate-fact-sheet">glyphosate</a> and Roundup’s relationship with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the condition <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rfkjr/posts/2085369495123122">suffered by the thousands</a> of Roundup users in this litigation.<br /><br />Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longtime environmental advocate and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Values-Lessons-Learned-Family/dp/0060848340/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528403894&sr=8-1&keywords=robert+f+kennedy+jr+books">American Values: Lessons I Learned From My Family</a>. He is an attorney of counsel to <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/">Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman</a>, representing nearly 800 people across the nation who allege Roundup exposure caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr">@RobertKennedyJr</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rfkjr/">Like him</a> on Facebook.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/">Organic Consumers Association</a> (OCA) is a nonprofit grassroots consumer advocacy organization. <a href="https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/5554/subscribe/1">Sign up</a> here to keep up with news and alerts from OCA.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Source: <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-cancer-trial">https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-cancer-trial</a></span></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-5855064480837654872018-06-18T13:30:00.002-07:002018-06-18T13:30:34.917-07:00DeWayne Johnson v. Monsanto Company TRIAL UNDERWAY in San Francisco<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1366689158" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 18, 2018</span></span></span></b></div>
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A presiding judge held a hearing this morning to determine that Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos will be the judge assigned to oversee the Johnson Monsanto Roundup trial.<u></u><u></u></div>
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We anticipate at least five to seven court days to handle motions <i>in limine</i> (requests to exclude certain testimony) and jury selection.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Mr. Johnson’s case is not part of the cases consolidated in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/brent-wisner-lead-counsel-roundup-jccp/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNEAxESMW09PfBo4xX3zy6dgXMGkLA" href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/brent-wisner-lead-counsel-roundup-jccp/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding (JCCP) in Alameda County</a>. His case was not included in that JCCP and Judge Karnow agreed, and Monsanto stipulated, to expedite Mr. Johnson’s case to trial due to his failing health. <u></u><u></u></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://millerfirmllc.com/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNFXQmvgDyxa984S8aeVHpoA2PpqVQ" href="https://millerfirmllc.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Miller Firm</a><span class="m_-5869775007177502839MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline;">,</span> based in Virginia, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNE8eJFbcNOb-f8BdrBd_emhPcLvyw" href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman</a><span class="m_-5869775007177502839MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline;">,</span> based in Los Angeles, are co-counsel for Mr. Johnson. Defendant Monsanto Co. is represented by attorneys from Hollingsworth, Farella Braun + Martel and Winston & Strawn.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Lee Johnson worked as a groundskeeper for the Benicia Unified School District. Between 2012 and 2015, Mr. Johnson’s job entailed the application of Monsanto glyphosate-based herbicides to school properties. In 2014, Mr. Johnson began to experience severe skin irritation, which he reported to health care providers.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Lee contacted Monsanto after discovering the rash. He called and wrote to Monsanto Company, asking if his rash could have been caused by his use of Roundup? Internal Monsanto emails, later obtained by his lawyers, discuss his call but Monsanto never responded to him, so he kept using Roundup®.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Medical notes from this time show that Mr. Johnson’s symptoms appeared to get worse with exposure to a Monsanto glyphosate-based herbicide. Mr. Johnson’s health care providers consulted Monsanto’s Material Safety Data Sheet for the herbicide, which did not refer to any type of cancer risk.<u></u><u></u></div>
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In August of 2014, Lee Johnson was diagnosed with epidermotropic T-cell lymphoma. After his diagnosis, his job still required him to apply and be in close contact with Monsanto glyphosate-based herbicides. Despite enduring chemotherapy treatments throughout 2015, Mr. Johnson’s cancer progressed and in September, a biopsy revealed mycosis fungoides (non-Hodgkin lymphoma with large cell transformation).<u></u><u></u></div>
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Mr. Johnson retained the Miller Firm to represent him and filed a lawsuit against Monsanto in 2016. According to the complaint, Mr. Johnson was healthy and active prior to his cancer diagnosis.<u></u><u></u></div>
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In January of 2018, Mr. Johnson’s treating physician testified in a deposition that 80 percent of Johnson’s body was covered by lesions and that he likely only had a few more months to live. Since the deposition, Mr. Johnson began taking a new drug and his condition has improved, though he often remains confined to his bed.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Mr. Johnson’s lawyers said that “although Lee is fighting for his life, he will find the strength and courage to stand up to Monsanto. Lee will show his children the true meaning of bravery regardless of the outcome.”<u></u><u></u></div>
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A hearing to assign a trial judge to <i>DeWayne Johnson v. Monsanto Company (case no. CGC-16-550128) </i>occurred on Monday, June 18 at 9:30 AM. Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos is the judge assigned to oversee the Johnson trial.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Motions <i>in limine</i> and jury selection will take approximately five to seven court days before the trial can begin, though opening statements could possibly take place as soon as <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1366689160" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday, June 25</span></span>.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Mr. Johnson is the first claimant to take Monsanto Co. to trial over allegations that the agrochemical company knowingly concealed the cancer-causing risks associated with exposure to its billion-dollar herbicide, Roundup®.<u></u><u></u></div>
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On May 17, 2018, California Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Judges-order-in-Johnson-Case-ahead-of-trial.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNFJelHLgNcL5q2QNMSQuBViKJMfZw" href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Judges-order-in-Johnson-Case-ahead-of-trial.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">issued an order</a> that allows jurors in <i>Johnson</i> to consider the scientific evidence related to the cause of Mr. Johnson’s cancer as well as allegations that Monsanto knowingly suppressed evidence that exposure to Roundup® can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Monsanto filed a motion for summary judgment based on another pretrial motion to exclude Mr. Johnson’s causation experts: if the experts were excluded, Mr. Johnson would not have evidence to prove medical causation. However, Judge Karnow ruled most of the opinions of the plaintiff’s experts were admissible and sufficient as evidence of both general and specific causation. As such, Monsanto’s motion for summary judgment on the basis of causation was denied.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Judge Karnow also ruled that Mr. Johnson carried his burden of producing evidence from which a reasonable jury could find that Monsanto had acted with such malice, fraud or oppression as to warrant punitive damages.<u></u><u></u></div>
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To look at court documents on the Johnson case, go to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNE1lFNju_sZX4OLsFIp06rEiljR1w" href="https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Superior Court of California County of San Francisco</a>, click Online Services, Case Query and enter case number CGC-16-550128.<u></u><u></u></div>
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You can also access court documents and related new stories at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNE_07oRwF8HBHIrg7SbkBQWD8WW4A" href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://usrtk.org/pesticides/<wbr></wbr>mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-<wbr></wbr>cancer-case-key-documents-<wbr></wbr>analysis/</a>.<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/Monsanto-CA-State-Court-Johnson-Complaint.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNEv6FbJqIMD0NY8Sj52Yvplz0XCbw" href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/Monsanto-CA-State-Court-Johnson-Complaint.pdf" target="_blank">The complaint</a> cites studies concluding that exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a host of other serious health issues</b>.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> In 2015, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNGXVmjPY8LaraNj9ELGOOJzdWzMJg" href="http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen</a><span style="color: #222222;"> based on a review of the available literature.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Monsanto contends its Roundup® products are safe and do not cause cancer, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<b>Who:<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<b>Attorneys for the Plaintiff<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<b>From the Miller Firm LLC<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://millerfirmllc.com/about/attorneys/timothy-litzenburg/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316415000&usg=AFQjCNHbWQLBcSqZLvlm78N4em8EhyvlSQ" href="https://millerfirmllc.com/about/attorneys/timothy-litzenburg/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Timothy Litzenburg</a> (Co-lead trial counsel)<span class="m_-5869775007177502839MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b>From Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman PC<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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Joe G. Hollingsworth<u></u><u></u></div>
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Martin C. Calhoun<u></u><u></u></div>
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Kirby T. Griffis<u></u><u></u></div>
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Exact trial start date TBD after motions and jury selection are done. Baum Hedlund will send an alert to anyone interested in the exact start date. Opening statements could possibly take place on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1366689161" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday, June 25</span></span>.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Trial Judge - Suzanne Ramos Bolanos<u></u><u></u></div>
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Watch it live? A request to broadcast the trial via CVN – <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://cvn.com/&source=gmail&ust=1529438316416000&usg=AFQjCNHGRjo5OlawS1iGTYusNoAITzhHbg" href="https://cvn.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Courtroom View Network</a> will be made to Judge Bolanos. Baum Hedlund will keep interested press informed if the judge approves the trial being filmed for broadcast. Please contact CVN for pricing at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://cvn.com/pricing&source=gmail&ust=1529438316416000&usg=AFQjCNF7xVYQsNVeZZh3qO2HqXXj0lBhmA" href="https://cvn.com/pricing" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://cvn.com/pricing</a>.</div>
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Los Angeles ● Philadelphia ● Washington, D.C.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-49871491777923931552018-05-14T08:43:00.004-07:002018-05-14T08:45:03.107-07:00GREAT ORGANIC FOOD SOURCING - LIST HERE!!<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>How to Buy Local ORGANIC FOOD</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">May 8, 2018 Organic Consumers Association</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><br />Despite <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-demand-for-local-food-is-growing-2017-4">growing demand</a> for locally produced foods, millions of Americans live in rural areas where they have <a href="http://thefoodtrust.org/uploads/media_items/grocerygap.original.pdf">little or no access</a> to any kind of healthy, nutrient-dense food, much less food produced in their own community.<br /><br />That’s not healthy for residents of those communities. And it’s not healthy for the communities. According to a <a href="https://www.planning.org/research/foodaccess/">report</a> from the American Planning Association: <br /><br />Disparities in food access are influenced by geographic, economic and social factors, but also by a community’s food production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste recovery policies and practices. Food access is not simply a health issue but also a community development and equity issue. For this reason, access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food is a key component not only in a healthy, sustainable local food system, but also in a healthy, sustainable community.”<br /><br />To build healthy local organic and regenerative food systems, we need help from policymakers and from forward-looking business and community leaders.<br /><br />We also need strong consumer demand. You can help, by supporting local businesses and independent farmers. Here’s a list to help you get started.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">• <a href="https://www.localharvest.org/">LocalHarvest.org</a> is the most comprehensive database for buying direct from family farmers.<br /><br />• <a href="https://www.1000ecofarms.com/">1000ecofarms.com</a> is fast becoming the Etsy of artisanal foods.<br /><br />• <a href="https://www.foodwaze.com/">FoodWaze.com</a> helps you find restaurants that live up to their claims of sourcing from local farms.<br /><br />• <a href="http://www.eatwild.com/">EatWild.com</a> specializes in grass-fed and pasture-raised animal products. The site includes a <a href="http://www.eatwild.com/products/">directory of farms by state</a>, a list of <a href="http://www.eatwild.com/products/farmsthatship.html">farms that ship</a>, and has excellent information on the latest scientific research on the <a href="http://www.eatwild.com/healthbenefits.htm">health benefits</a> of farm-raised, as opposed to factory-farm-raised, animal products. <br /><br />• <a href="https://www.realmilk.com/real-milk-finder/%20%C2%A0">RealMilk.com</a> provides a directory of raw milk sellers.<br /><br />• <a href="https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations">Monterey Seafood Watch</a> helps you locate sources of sustainable seafood.<br /><br />• <a href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/food-directories-update">Local Food Directories</a>, published and by the USDA, help you locate <a href="http://www.usdalocalfooddirectories.com/farmersmarketdirectoryupdate/FM_Portal_Public.aspx">farmers markets</a>, <a href="http://www.usdalocalfooddirectories.com/csaonfarmdirectoryupdate/of_portal_public.aspx">on-farm markets</a>, <a href="http://www.usdalocalfooddirectories.com/csaonfarmdirectoryupdate/csa_portal_public.aspx">CSAs</a>, and <a href="http://www.usdalocalfooddirectories.com/foodhubdirectoryupdate/fh_portal_public.aspx%C2%A0">food hubs</a>.</span></b><br /><br />Should we add to this list? Please email <a href="mailto:campaigns@organicconsumers.org">campaigns@organicconsumers.org</a> and let us know.<br /><br />Organic Consumers Association is a nonprofit consumer advocacy and grassroots organization. Keep up-to-date with OCA’s news and alerts by <a href="http://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=10633">signing up</a> for our newsletter.<br /><br />Source:</span> <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/how-buy-local">https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/how-buy-local</a></span>Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-47999074014480724142018-05-08T08:28:00.000-07:002018-05-08T08:39:34.394-07:00MONSANTO To Be SUED AGAIN For 50 Years of Knowingly Poisoning Food Water Air <span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Judge Rules Non-Profits Can Sue Monsanto for Misleading Labeling of Popular Herbicide Roundup</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br />May 7, 2018<br /><br />CONTACT:<br />Jay Feldman, Beyond Pesticides, 202-543-5450, <a href="mailto:JFeldman@beyondpesticides.org">JFeldman@beyondpesticides.org</a> <br />Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Assoc.: (207) 653-3090, <a href="mailto:katherine@organicconsumers.org">katherine@organicconsumers.org</a><br /><br />Washington, DC- Beyond Pesticides (BP) and The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today responded to a federal judge’s ruling against Monsanto Co.’s motion to dismiss the groups’ <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/sites/default/files/roundup_dc_complaint_final_1.pdf">lawsuit</a>, filed in April, 2017.<br /><br />Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, the lead plaintiff in the case, said: <br /><br />“In the face of EPA’s poor regulation of pesticides, misleading pesticide product labeling cannot be left unchecked. The court’s decision to allow our case to move forward, in denying Monsanto’s motion to dismiss, is critical to showing that the company is deceiving the public with a safety claim on its Roundup (glyphosate) label. Its advertising and labeling claim that Roundup ‘targets an enzyme found in plants but not in people or pets’ is false, given the devastating harm that glyphosate has on beneficial bacteria in the gut biome. The disruption of the gut biome is associated with a host of 21st century diseases, including asthma, autism, bacterial vaginosis, cardiovascular disease, cancer, Crohn’s disease, depression, inflammatory bowel disease, leaky gut syndrome, multiple sclerosis, obesity, Type 1 and 2 diabetes, and Parkinson’s. <br /><br />“The science on the hazards of Roundup (glyphosate) are clear and Monsanto officials know it. With this case, we seek to ensure that the public is not misled by false advertising and product labeling in the marketplace. It is a critical step toward ensuring that people are fully informed before purchasing toxic products that can poison them, their families, and the communities where they live.” <br /><br />OCA International Director, Ronnie Cummins said: <br /><br />“Monsanto aggressively markets Roundup as ‘safe’ for humans and animals, despite newer studies indicating that glyphosate may be carcinogenic and its use may affect human and animal cardiovascular, endocrine, nervous and reproductive systems. No reasonable consumer seeing the claim on this product that glyphosate targets an enzyme not found ‘in people or pets’ would expect that Roundup actually targets an important bacterial enzyme found in humans and animals, affecting the health of their immune system.<br /><br />“Survey after survey shows that consumers rely on labels to guide their purchases and keep them and their families safe. When corporations mislead on the issue of a product’s effect on consumers and their families, they put everyone, but especially young children—in this case, playing in yards and parks—at risk, leaving the public no other recourse than to use the legal system to seek the removal of this misleading information.”<br /><br />U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/sites/default/files/5.1.18_memorandum_order_denying_mtd.pdf">ruled</a> that OCA and BP presented enough evidence to support that Monsanto’s labeling of its flagship weedkiller, Roundup, misleads consumers.<br /><br />Through their attorneys, Richman Law Group, OCA and BP sued Monsanto on behalf of the general public, in Washington D.C., under the District of Columbia’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act, for misleading the public by labeling its popular weedkiller Roundup as “target[ing] an enzyme found in plants but not in people or pets.” The nonprofits allege that this statement is false, deceptive and misleading, because the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is, in fact, found in people and pets.<br /><br />Beyond Pesticides is a national grassroots non-profit organization headquartered in the District of Columbia that works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.beyondpesticides.org/">www.beyondpesticides.org</a>.<br /><br />The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/">www.organicconsumers.org</a>. <br /><br />Richman Law Group (RLG) is a boutique law firm specializing in consumer protection and civil rights. RLG is dedicated to serving the greater good by holding large corporations accountable for actions that harm consumers, the environment, and the general public. For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.richmanlawgroup.com/">www.richmanlawgroup.com</a>.</span></span><br />
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A widely used weed killer that’s been linked to cancer has turned up in nearly every common food in the US, according to a new report.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Scientists with the Food and Drug Administration found glyphosate, which has been used as an herbicide since the 1970s, in everything</u></span></b><span style="font-size: 1rem;"> from corn to honey, granola, wheat crackers and oatmeal, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #cc3333; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none;">The Guardian said</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;">, citing records it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">“There’s a fair amount in all of them,” FDA chemist Richard Thompson wrote to colleagues in a January 2017 email that was among the records.</span></b></div>
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The FDA has been testing how prevalent glyphosate is in foods for two years but hasn’t released official results.</div>
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Linda Birnbaum, a toxicologist and director of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Services, said even a small exposure to pesticides can be dangerous.</div>
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“Even with low levels of pesticides, we’re exposed to so many, and we don’t count the fact that we have cumulative exposures,” Birnbaum told the Guardian.</div>
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Thompson, who works out of an FDA laboratory in Arkansas, wrote that broccoli was the only food that he had “on hand” that didn’t show any traces of the herbicide.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Another FDA chemist, Narong Chamkasem, found “over-the-tolerance” levels of glyphosate at 6.5 parts per million in corn, the Guardian reported. The legal limit is 5.0 parts per million.</b></span></div>
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But an FDA supervisor wrote to an Environmental Protection Agency official in an email that the corn was not considered an “official sample” – meaning that the shocking example wouldn’t be reported to the EPA.</div>
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Chamkasem also found traces of glyphosate in honey and oatmeal products. The FDA temporarily suspended testing after those findings and reassigned Chamkasem’s lab to “other programs,” the Guardian said.</div>
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An FDA spokesman told the Guardian that the agency has not found any illegal levels of glyphosate in corn, soy, milk or eggs – the four commodities part of its glyphosate “special assignment” — in its official samples.</div>
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The FDA noted that Chamkasem’s results of glyphosate in honey and oatmeal were not part of its assignment.</div>
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Farmers are able to kill weeds without destroying their crops thanks to glyphosate, which is found in Monsanto Company’s popular Roundup brand of weed killer. More than 200 million pounds of Roundup are used each year on fields in the US.</div>
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The herbicide is sprayed directly on some crops, including corn, soybeans, wheat and oats and used by spinach and almond farmers before growing season.</div>
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In December 2017, t<a href="https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-releases-draft-risk-assessments-glyphosate" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #cc3333; text-decoration-line: none;">he EPA concluded</a> that glyphosate “is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.”</div>
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“The agency’s assessment found no other meaningful risks to human health when the product is used according to the pesticide label,” the agency said on its website.</div>
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But Monsanto is currently facing more than 400 lawsuits in San Francisco by plaintiffs who claim the chemical causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that the company covered up the risks, <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #cc3333; text-decoration-line: none;">according to nonprofit watchdog group US Right to Know.</a></div>
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Source: <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/04/30/pesticide-linked-to-cancer-is-in-nearly-every-us-food-report/">https://nypost.com/2018/04/30/pesticide-linked-to-cancer-is-in-nearly-every-us-food-report/</a></div>
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Organic Consumers Association <span style="color: #010101;"> </span><span class="author" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 5% 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by Alexis Baden-Mayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: white;">Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is the <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/glyphosate-now-most-used-agricultural-chemical-ever-422419">most-used</a> agricultural chemical ever. Mounting scientific evidence of its <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/glyphosate-health-concerns-about-most-widely-used-pesticide/">human health impacts</a> indicates that it may also be the most devastating.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=16052"><b><span style="font-size: large;">TAKE ACTION! Tell the EPA: Ban Monsanto’s carcinogenic glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller! Please add your own comments, especially if you or your loved-ones have been sickened by exposure to glyphosate.</span></b></a><br /><br />The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been conducting its required <a href="https://archive.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/web/html/index-154.html">15-year re-registration review</a> of glyphosate since 2009. The agency was supposed to reapprove or ban the chemical by the end of 2015. We assumed that glyphosate would get the stamp of approval for another 15 years while President Obama was still in office. <br /><br />Then, in March 2015, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) panel of cancer experts, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), did its own review of the latest science on glyphosate. The IARC panel of 17 scientists unanimously agreed to <a href="https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/2016/glyphosate_IARC2016.php">reclassify</a> the chemical as a probable human carcinogen.<br /><br />The IARC cancer finding forced the EPA to take its glyphosate review more seriously. That slowed down the process. Now, the decision is in the hands of the Trump administration’s EPA.<br /><br />Campaign to ban glyphosate alive and well, despite pro-chemical EPA<br /><br />Under Trump, the EPA is controlled by the notorious <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/opinion/scott-pruitt-ridiculous.html">Scott Pruitt</a> who has a cozy relationship with Monsanto, one of his former <a href="https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=6583668">campaign funders</a>.<br /><br />We probably have a better chance of getting <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-congress/epas-pruitt-under-spending-probe-senators-urge-his-ouster-idUSKBN1HP2UN">Pruitt fired</a> than we have of getting him to ban glyphosate.<br /><br />That said, the campaign to ban Monsanto’s Roundup is <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/where-is-glyphosate-banned/">winning around the globe</a>. And here in the U.S., despite a pro-chemical EPA, there’s plenty of activity around opposition to glyphosate.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nontoxicirvine.org/">Non-Toxic Neighborhoods</a> campaigners are getting localities to stop using glyphosate on parks and playgrounds.<br /><br /><a href="https://detoxproject.org/">Testing</a> that revealed glyphosate in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/dining/ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-herbicide-glyphosate.html">Ben & Jerry’s ice cream</a> and other so-called “natural” foods has spurred a <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/oh-irony-time-ben-jerrys-clean-its-own-swamp">movement</a>to get these products out of grocery stores—which would mean getting glyphosate out of the U.S. food supply chain.<br /><br />Even <a href="https://www.beyondpesticides.org/programs/bee-protective-pollinators-and-pesticides/what-can-you-do/the-well-stocked-hardware-store">local hardware stores</a> are dropping Roundup and going organic.<br /><br />Cancer victims take Monsanto to court<br /><br />Meanwhile, farmers, farm workers, landscapers and gardeners who used Roundup and developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/">suing Monsanto</a> in courts across the country.<br /><br />Earlier this year, in a federal court in California where 380 of these lawsuits have been combined into a <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/">single case</a>, scientists educated the court on glyphosate-cancer science. The judge must review scientific experts’ methodologies for analyzing the scientific evidence to make sure they are valid. Ultimately jurors will decide whether the scientific evidence shows that Roundup causes NHL. The judge will determine which experts may testify at trial after a hearing set for <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/">May 10</a>. <br /><br />According to Carey Gillam, reporting for <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/reports-from-cancer-victims-v-monsanto-daubert-hearings/">U.S. Right to Know</a>, and the <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/3-18-daubert-monsanto-science-week/">plaintiffs’ attorneys</a>, the following experts testified for the plaintiffs.<br /><br />Beate Ritz, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Epidemiology Department at UCLA, walked the judge through a series of epidemiology studies conducted over the years that show statistically significant risk factors linking glyphosate to cancer. The literature shows that the risk to individuals considered “routine users” of glyphosate was significant, she testified. When asked if the studies she evaluated show that glyphosate has caused NHL in people, her reply: “Yes, I think they do.”<br /> <br />Dennis Weisenburger, M.D., Chair of the Pathology Department of the City of Hope Medical Center where he specializes in the study of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, described a series of studies that show DNA damage in people exposed to glyphosate, including through aerial spraying. Research shows that both glyphosate and formulations like Roundup cause genetic damage that leads to NHL, he said. In one study, the <a href="http://www.occupationalcancer.ca/2013/north-american-pooled-project/">North American Pooled Project</a> the risk for NHL increased almost twofold for people who used glyphosate more than two days per year.<br /><br />Alfred Neugut, M.D., Ph.D., a practicing medical oncologist and professor of cancer research, medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University, began his testimony by saying research shows a connection between glyphosate and NHL with great specificity. The consistency in study findings is something that cannot be ignored, he said, as scientists have seen repeated evidence linking glyphosate to NHL. “Every time you look what comes up? Glyphosate and NHL,” said Dr. Neugut.<br /><br />Charles Jameson, Ph.D., who served as program leader for the National Toxicology Program at NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for 12 years and was a member of the IARC working group that concluded glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen, detailed the body of research that led him to conclude that glyphosate and Roundup can cause NHL at real-world exposure levels that farmers, farm workers and others face when spraying the herbicide. The science showing that glyphosate-based herbicides cause oxidative stress is important, as is the known link to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he explained<br /><br />Christopher Portier, Ph.D., who over the course of a lengthy career, has held prominent leadership positions with the U.S. government, including, Associate Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Toxicology Program, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health, Center for Disease and Prevention, and Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, was also an “invited specialist” to the IARC review on glyphosate. “To a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, given the human, animal, and mechanistic evidence, glyphosate probably causes NHL, and the probability that glyphosate causes NHL is high,” he said.<br /><br />Aaron Blair, Ph.D., the Overall Chair of the IARC glyphosate review, explained how he weighed the totality of the epidemiology studies to support his opinion that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen.<br /><br />Matthew Ross, Ph.D., part of the mechanism section of the IARC glyphosate review, explained why the strong evidence that glyphosate is genotoxic and causes oxidative stress are relevant to carcinogenicity in humans.<br /><br />Chadi Nabhan, M.D., F.A.C.P, a board-certified clinical medical oncologist who, until last year, treated approximately 30 lymphoma patients per week, currently serves as Medical Director of Cardinal Health. In his testimony, Dr. Nabhan discussed the process by which IARC determines whether chemicals and substances are carcinogens. The agency has a high bar in consideration for what chemicals or substances it will review, he said. Exposures must be high and the animal data must be strong. Since 1965, IARC has reviewed over 1000 agents and found around 20 percent to be carcinogens. “In my opinion, the [NHL] risk [of exposure to glyphosate] is clinically significant enough that patients should be aware of it,” said Dr. Nabhan. “The IARC report is very convincing.”<br /><br />Lawsuits reveal Monsanto-EPA collusion<br /><br />If these experts are all permitted to testify without restriction, the court’s glyphosate-cancer review will be far more rigorous than the EPA’s. This is especially true given what we know now (from evidence uncovered in the lawsuit) about how the EPA’s review has been <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/features/monsanto_epa_glyphosate_roundup_investigation.html">corrupted by Monsanto</a>.<br /><br />It all started when EPA scientists saw that a 1983 mouse study provided evidence that glyphosate was carcinogenic. Monsanto managed to convince EPA political appointees to overrule the scientists and declare that the study proved that glyphosate was not carcinogenic. This Orwellian misstatement of the facts continues to be repeated as a mantra by EPA decision-makers still under Monsanto’s sway.<br /><br />Congress weighs in, attempts to discredit IARC<br /><br />In February, the U.S. Congress weighed in on the glyphosate-cancer connection. The House Science Committee <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/spinning-science-and-silencing-scientists-dangers-glyphosate">held a hearing</a>, “In Defense of Scientific Integrity: Examining the IARC Monograph Programme and Glyphosate Review.” For the Republican leaders of the committee, Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Vice Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), the purpose of the hearing was to attempt to discredit <a href="https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/2016/glyphosate_IARC2016.php">WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer</a>.<br /><br />The strategy backfired, as the hearing only stirred <a href="https://wtop.com/national/2018/02/gop-lawmakers-take-aim-at-cancer-research-group-over-roundup/">public concern</a> over Roundup’s carcinogenicity and Monsanto’s undue influence over EPA decision makers. Chairman Smith’s witnesses were not credible. In fact, they are among the chemical industry’s most notorious shills:<br /><br />Dr. Timothy Pastoor was identified as “CEO, Pastoor Science Communications.” Until 2015, he worked for Syngenta as Principal Scientist. At Syngenta, he spent his time menacing independent scientists like Dr. Tyrone Hayes, who he <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/silencing_the_scientist_tyrone_hayes_on%20Pastoor">threatened to have lynched</a> and even threatened Dr. Hayes’ wife and daughter with sexual violence.<br /><br />Dr. Robert Tarone was listed a “(retired) mathematical statistician, U.S. National Cancer Institute and Biostatistics Director, International Epidemiology Institute.” In fact, in his “retirement,” Tarone was <a href="http://governance.iarc.fr/ENG/Docs/IARC_responds_to_Reuters_15_June_2017.pdf">paid by Monsanto</a> as a consultant to one of the company’s lawyers.<br /><br />Dr. Anna Lowit was truthfully presented as a senior science adviser at the EPA. What wasn’t mentioned is that documents uncovered in the lawsuits filed by <a href="https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/">Roundup-exposed cancer victims</a> put Dr. Lowit at the center of EPA-Monsanto collusion. A <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MarionCopleyletter.pdf">2013 letter</a> from EPA toxicologist Marion Copley to Jess Rowlands, the former deputy director in the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) who is currently the subject of an <a href="https://www.bna.com/watchdog-may-find-n73014453069/">Office of Inspector General investigation</a>, says Dr. Lowit:<br /><br />. . . intimidated staff on CARC [Cancer Assessment Review Committee] and changed HIARC [Hazard Identification Assessment Review Committee] and HASPOC [Hazard and Science Policy Committee] final reports to favor industry. ... Just promise me to never let Anna on the CARC committee, her decisions don't make rational sense. If anyone at OPP is taking bribes it is her.<br /><br />Calling a carcinogen a carcinogen<br /><br />The testimony provided by Drs. Pastoor, Tarone and Lowit’s was particularly untrustworthy compared with the <a href="https://youtu.be/-OWyaxkHnaY?t=52m25s">testimony</a>of Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson’s only witness, Jennifer Sass, Ph.D., senior scientist at the National Resources Defense Council, who said in her testimony:<br /><br />“This hearing is about the ability of a public health agency to call a carcinogen a carcinogen, even if it makes a huge amount of money for a powerful corporation,” Dr. Sass <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-sass/monsanto-mouthpieces-house-science-committee-epa-eu-efsa">testified</a>. “Are we willing to sell out the public’s right to know about harmful chemicals in the places we work live, and play, just so that Monsanto Co. can sell more glyphosate?”<br /><br />The committee’s Democratic members produced a scathing <a href="https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/pdf/monsanto-documents/Final-minority-report-glyphosate-spinning-science-silencing-scientists.pdf">minority report</a>, “Spinning Science & Silencing Scientists: A Case Study in How the Chemical Industry Attempts to Influence Science.” The report outlined the tactics Monsanto has used to suppress scientific evidence that Roundup causes cancer and evade regulation, including secretly ghostwriting scientific journal articles on glyphosate, discrediting critical independent scientists, and discretely paying scientists, journalists and journal editors to do this dirty work.<br /><br />The most egregious example the report cites is that of A. Wallace (“Wally”) Hayes: Former Editor-in-Chief for Vision and Strategy at Food and Chemical Toxicology. Monsanto paid him $16,000 to retract a study he published by <a href="https://www.gmoseralini.org/">Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini</a> that found that Roundup and genetically modified glyphosate-resistant corn caused tumors in rats—in levels below regulatory limits for food and drinking water. Not only did he do this, he lied about it. According to the report:<br /><br />Hayes told the New York Times that he had not been under contract with Monsanto at the time of the retraction and was paid by the company only after he left the journal. “Monsanto played no role whatsoever in the decision that was made to retract,” he told the newspaper.<br /><br />This lie would never have been uncovered if it weren’t for the lawsuits filed on behalf of Roundup-exposed cancer victims that, as the report states, have “revealed hundreds of pages of internal Monsanto e-mails, memorandums, and other records that clearly show Monsanto engaged in a decades-long concerted effort to fend off any evidence suggesting potential adverse human health effects from glyphosate and more recently to undermine IARC’s findings.”<br /><br />The results of ongoing investigations and court testimony will likely undermine the legitimacy of the EPA’s decision, should it approve glyphosate. As consumers whose food supply is contaminated with glyphosate, we need to keep up the pressure on the EPA, regardless of Pruitt’s ties to Monsanto.<br /><br /><a href="https://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=16052">TAKE ACTION! Tell the EPA: Ban Monsanto’s carcinogenic glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller! Please add your own comments, especially if you or your loved-ones have been sickened by exposure to glyphosate.</a><br /><br />Alexis Baden-Mayer is political director for the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). <a href="http://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=10633">Sign up here for news and alerts from OCA.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Source: <a href="https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/time-ban-monsantos-roundup-weedkiller-will-epa-act">https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/time-ban-monsantos-roundup-weedkiller-will-epa-act</a></span></span></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-62031556224890840092017-12-12T17:18:00.001-08:002017-12-12T17:22:05.980-08:00EU COMMITS TO A TRANSPARENT, PESTICIDE-FREE FUTURE<br />
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Glyphosate: Commission responds to European Citizens' Initiative and announces more transparency in scientific assessments</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the Communication adopted today, the Commission replies to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides" and commits to presenting a legislative proposal in 2018, to further increase the transparency and quality of studies used in the scientific assessment of substances.</strong></div>
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In responding to the European Citizens' Initiative, the European Commission addresses the concerns of EU citizens and announces measures to make the process to authorise, restrict or ban the use of pesticides more transparent in the future.</div>
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Today's Communication sets out the way forward:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0pt;">In replying to the Citizens' Initiative, it provides a detailed explanation of EU rules on pesticides;</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0pt;">It announces a legislative proposal for spring 2018 to enhance the transparency, quality and independence of scientific assessments of substances, such as public access to raw data, and;</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0pt;">It announces future amendments to the legislation to strengthen the governance of the conduct of relevant studies, which could include for example the involvement of public authorities in the process of deciding which studies need to be conducted for a specific case.</li>
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In addition, and following a thorough scientific assessment of all available data on glyphosate concluding that there is no link between glyphosate and cancer in humans, and a positive vote by Member States' representatives on 27 November 2017<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-5191_en.htm%23_ftn1&source=gmail&ust=1513213923918000&usg=AFQjCNHIGUTxdI7IiUcz8GQBE4samvCCCA" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-5191_en.htm#_ftn1" name="m_2788460213152011000__ftnref1" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[1]</sup></strong></sup></strong></a>, the Commission today adopted a renewal of the approval of glyphosate for 5 years. While 15 years is the period that the Commission usually proposes for authorisations when all approval criteria are met, glyphosate is no routine case. This issue has been discussed several times by the Commission that has been working during the last months towards a decision which gathers the broadest possible support by Member States, while ensuring a high level of protection of human health and the environment in line with EU legislation. The Commission's final proposal for a 5 year renewal took also into account the latest non-binding Resolutions adopted by the European Parliament.</div>
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First Vice-President Frans <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timmermans</strong> said: <em>"It's great that well over a million EU citizens have invested their time to engage directly on an issue that matters. The Commission has listened and will now act. We need more transparency about how decisions are made in this area. Next spring the Commission will also deliver proposals on drinking water we promised in response to another successful Initiative. In sum, I am a strong supporter of the right of citizens to engage in this manner and am pressing the Parliament and Council to make speedy progress on our proposals to make it easier for European Citizens' Initiatives to be successful in the future."</em></div>
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Vytenis <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andriukaitis</strong>, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, said: <em>"From the beginning of my mandate I have been a strong supporter of increased transparency in decision-making as well as in the terms of access to the scientific studies underlying the approval of active substances. I will put forward a proposal to address these issues by spring 2018. However it is equally important that Member States assume their responsibility when it comes to the authorisation of pesticides in their own markets. They must also ensure that pesticides are used sustainably and in full compliance with label requirements. Transparency, independence, and sustainable use of pesticides are our objectives. They should underpin our work and this is where my focus will be".</em></div>
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The Commission's reply to the three requests of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002?lg%3Den&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNG9vyH1_ASgxtfIUYujdoUve0Eb4Q" href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002?lg=en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ECI</a>:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. “Ban glyphosate-based herbicides, exposure to which has been linked to cancer in humans, and has led to ecosystems degradation”:</strong></div>
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Member States are responsible for the authorisation, use and/or ban of glyphosate-based products on their territories. In the EU, only substances for which there is objective evidence of safe use are approved. Following a thorough scientific assessment of all available data on glyphosate concluding that there is no link between glyphosate and cancer in humans, and a positive vote by Member States' representatives on 27 November 2017, the Commission today adopted a renewal of the approval of glyphosate for 5 years.President Juncker put this issue on the College agenda on several occasions, to ensure full political ownership by the Commission. Based on these political discussions, and taking account of the position of the European Parliament, the Commission decided to reduce the length of the proposed renewal from the standard 15 years to 5 years, which also ensured the widest possible support from Member States.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Ensure that the scientific evaluation of pesticides for EU regulatory approval is based only on published studies, which are commissioned by competent public authorities instead of the pesticide industry”:</strong></div>
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The Commission fully agrees that transparency in scientific assessments and decision-making is vital to ensuring trust in the food safety regulatory system. Maintaining and improving a strong, transparent and independent scientific assessment is crucial. The Commission will put forward a legislative proposal in 2018 covering these and other relevant aspects such as the governance of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),by spring 2018. The Commission will propose to change the current rules to make sure that scientific studies are publicly available. Citizens must be able to understand how such far-reaching decisions to authorise or ban certain substances are taken. Political responsibility and greater transparency are two sides of the same coin.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. “Set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use, with a view to achieving a pesticide-free future”:</strong></div>
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EU policy is already directed towards reducing dependency on pesticides and achieving a pesticide-free future as requested by the European Citizens' Initiative. The Commission will strive to ensure that Member States comply with their obligations under the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/sustainable_use_pesticides_en&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNEDD2VpksWszFunGowwHIAzwHWyBA" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/sustainable_use_pesticides_en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sustainable Use Directive</a> and reduce dependency on pesticides. Member States have also been invited to establish more precise and measureable targets in their <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/sustainable_use_pesticides/nap_en&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNEgFW11GoB4CqdZn2Veg_vm3DE-wQ" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/sustainable_use_pesticides/nap_en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">National Action Plans</a>. In addition, in order to monitor trends in risk reduction from pesticide use at EU level, the Commission will establish <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">harmonised risk indicators</strong>on top of the existing national risk indicators. These would enable the Commission to determine the effectiveness of measures when assessing future policy options. The Commission will re-evaluate the situation on the basis of the resulting data and assess the need for EU-wide mandatory targets for pesticides.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Next steps:</strong></div>
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- On the <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">preparation of a legislative proposal: </strong>In January 2018, a report will be published on the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/general_food_law_en&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNH3n6Xc--miIyfY9heolO0RLlyq2A" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/general_food_law_en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fitness Check of General Food Law</a> which will take stock of the legislation in place. A public consultation will also be launched to feed into the preparation of the proposal to be presented by spring 2018.</div>
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- On a more <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sustainable use of pesticides, </strong>the Commission will follow-up with the Member States on the basis of a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_sup_report-overview_en.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNHYkXuqVk2qtn6slYDrF3sQYP4uBQ" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_sup_report-overview_en.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">report</a> published last October.</div>
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The procedure for the renewal of the approval of the active substance <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate_en&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNF5M-dStGgykB1IUoNislmFMJJV4Q" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate_en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">glyphosate</a> generated a great deal of interest and a broader debate on the authorisation and use of pesticides in the EU. On 27 November 2017, Member States voted in favour of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_glyphosate_commission_proposal_revision4.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNFfAP6BIWrJLTTImMXQNOPS7okFeg" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_glyphosate_commission_proposal_revision4.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Commission's proposal</a> for a 5 year renewal of the approval.</div>
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On the request of President Juncker, the issue has been discussed several times by the College of Commissioners. The Commission has been working towards a decision which gathers the broadest possible support by Member States, while ensuring a high level of protection of human health and the environment in line with EU legislation. It followed a comprehensive and transparent scientific process, where more than 6.000 pages of scientific assessment were made public.</div>
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While 15 years is the period that the Commission usually proposes for authorisations when all approval criteria are met, glyphosate is no routine case. Other legitimate factors were taken into consideration when setting the appropriate period for renewal, such as the fact that additional information on the substance is being published at a high rate. Moreover, the Commission's final proposal for a 5 year renewal took into account the latest non-binding Resolutions adopted by the European Parliament. The decision formally adopted today, also carefully considered the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002?lg%3Den&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNG9vyH1_ASgxtfIUYujdoUve0Eb4Q" href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002?lg=en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">European Citizens' Initiative</a> "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides".</div>
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Already at the beginning of his mandate, President Juncker announced that governing by abstention is not an option and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-264_en.htm&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNE2p_SqWPHd6cz_iVzlQlAym51wMw" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-264_en.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">proposed</a> changing the so-called comitology rules in order to enhance transparency about the positions taken by Member States and ensure more political accountability in the decision making process for our citizens.</div>
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All documents, including the related decisions adopted today by the Commission, will be available <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate_en&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNF5M-dStGgykB1IUoNislmFMJJV4Q" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate_en" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-17-5192_en.htm&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNEoj8_VYrS0WWu3DP303wwpQDMvzw" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-17-5192_en.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Questions and answers: Commission's reply to ECI on Glyphosate</a></div>
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The European Citizens' Initiative: “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNG99ccoQnw4XV1gM6Tn9nw3RmlqIA" href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides</a>"</div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ec.europa.eu/assets/sante/food/plants/pesticides/lop/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNHczMGYyUa64AZDlU9Txm59Nl6efg" href="http://ec.europa.eu/assets/sante/food/plants/pesticides/lop/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Approval of pesticides in the EU</a></div>
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Factsheet: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_approval-factsheet.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNFB3fQk7qqBOz7B3hq5Jx6v3g4tuw" href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/pesticides_approval-factsheet.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Pesticides in the EU: authorisation and use”</a></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-5191_en.htm%23_ftnref1&source=gmail&ust=1513213923919000&usg=AFQjCNEGUcQXSrNCV2c7nnRmIRLMCudVrw" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-5191_en.htm#_ftnref1" name="m_2788460213152011000__ftn1" style="border: 0px; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[1]</sup></strong></sup></strong></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: inherit;">Appeal Committee on 27 November 2017, a positive opinion was reached with Member States, 18 of them (65.71% of the EU's population) voting in favour of the renewal, 9 (32.26%) against and 1 (2.02%) abstaining.</span></div>
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The Greens/EFA group will try to build a majority in the European Parliament to refer the EU’s decision to renew the licence for glyphosate to the European Court of Justice. The Greens and MEPs from the S&D political group are calling for the decision to be annulled.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The calls follow a new <a href="http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/5422" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">report</a> from Professor Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian international human rights lawyer who now sits on the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and who formerly served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. In his report, Prof De Schutter outlined the reasons why the EU Commission's Implementing Regulation, which lays out the terms on which glyphosate's approval will be renewed, is unlawful and should be annulled. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />His view is shared by the MEPs Eric Andrieu and Marc Tarabella from the S&D political group. They <a href="http://www.eric-andrieu.eu/glyphosate-on-annule-tout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">stated</a>, "The re-authorization of this potentially carcinogenic substance for 500 million European citizens violates the existing European regulations on pesticides and several provisions of EU treaties." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The MEPs added that Prof De Schutter's report confirms that the EU vote to renew glyphosate for another five years "does not respect the precautionary principle".</div>
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In his report, Prof De Schutter stated that the renewal contravenes the EU pesticide regulation, which seeks to ensure that no pesticides shall be authorized unless they have no harmful effects on human health and no unacceptable effects on the environment. He wrote that by renewing the approval of an active substance with harmful effects that are amply demonstrated and acknowledged, the Commission broke the law. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Prof De Schutter added that the Commission's Implementing Regulation laying down conditions for glyphosate's renewal breaks the EU pesticide regulation's requirement that the approval and marketing of pesticides should enhance the functioning of the internal market.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He explained that the Implementing Regulation leaves it up to EU member states to protect groundwater, applicators, non-professional users, and non-target animals and plants from potential harm caused by glyphosate. Thus, wrote Prof De Schutter, "The Regulation opens the door to the adoption of a variety of national (or even subnational) regulatory regimes that would defeat its harmonisation purpose. Therefore, it appears that the Implementing Regulation breaches [the EU's pesticide regulation] insofar as it does not enhance the good functioning of the internal market."</div>
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Philippe Lamberts, co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, said: “We will now try build a majority in the European Parliament to take this to the European Court of Justice and will appeal to the Member States that rightly objected to the Commission’s proposals to join us. We must attempt to reverse what is set to be a deeply harmful decision. It will be clear to anyone that reads Prof De Schutter’s meticulous report that the Commission has been led by business interests. They disregarded not only the European Citizens’ Initiative and the view of the European Parliament, but also serious scientific warnings. Despite the large scale concern, they pressed ahead without even allowing a pause for further investigation. The German government in particular has questions to answer. It seems they are more interested in ensuring the proposed Bayer-Monsanto merger goes ahead than protecting the health of their own citizens."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Prof De Schutter commented: “The Commission has transformed into an institutional crisis what was, initially, a public health issue. It has dismissed the views of the International Agency of Research of Cancer (IARC) of the WHO, according to which glyphosate represents a ‘probable risk of provoking cancer in humans’. It did so despite the fact that the IARC’s findings are far more respected by the scientific community than those of the European agencies — the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) — which have adopted their views based primarily, it now appears, on the documents provided by Monsanto. This is unacceptable. The Court of Justice shall have no choice but to annul the Implementing Regulation, for violation of the requirement to ensure a high level of protection of human health and of the environment, and for violation of the right of citizens to file a ECI — and to contribute thereby to the democratic life of the Union.”</div>
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The European Commission is due to adopt the Implementing Regulation on 12 December. There is then a two-month period in which any Member State or the European Parliament can file an action for annulment of the implementing regulation.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For Prof De Schutter's full report, see: <a href="http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/5422" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://extranet.greens-efa-service.eu/public/media/file/1/5422</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sources: </em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament </em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/press/greens-efa-group-calls-for-commission-decision-to-be-annulled/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/press/greens-efa-group-calls-for-commission-decision-to-be-annulled/</a></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eric Andrieu, S&D MEP: <a href="http://www.eric-andrieu.eu/glyphosate-on-annule-tout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://www.eric-andrieu.eu/glyphosate-on-annule-tout/</a></em></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-49692828176149623772017-12-06T09:18:00.003-08:002017-12-06T09:18:40.169-08:00EUROPE STRIVES TO BAN GLYPHOSATE AFTER RENEWAL<img alt="Image result for tHE CONVERSATION" height="68" src="https://cdn1.pri.org/sites/default/files/program-banner/TheConversationLogo_smaller.jpg" width="320" /><br />
<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px;">A controversial weedkiller has won a new </span><span class="nobr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">five-year</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px;">lease in Europe, but citizens are fighting back</span></b><br />
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The controversial <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42135437" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">pesticide Glyphosate</a> – which is the key ingredient in one of the world’s bestselling weedkillers – has recently had its license renewed by the EU for another five years. This means it will continue to be used by both farmers and homeowners, and will be available for sale across Europe. This is despite ongoing debates about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/27/controversial-glyphosate-weedkiller-wins-new-five-year-lease-in-europe" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">how safe the pesticide actually is</a>.</div>
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The decision came just weeks before the current license was due to expire in December and broke a months long impasse between member states who had previously rejected renewals for 15 and ten years.</div>
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Despite Brexit, the UK is still affected by the EU’s decision, because it is part of the EU’s agriculture, environment and food safety regimes until March 2019. After that date, a separate process, and a longer license for glyphosate, may beckon.</div>
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Why the controversy?</h2>
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Glyphosate is so controversial because it has previously been linked to cancer. In 2015, The World Health Organization’s <a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/index.php" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">International Agency for Research on Cancer</a> stated that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans”. But since then, two EU agencies – the European Food Safety Agency and the European Chemicals Agency – have concluded that it is safe.</div>
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In the run up to the re-licensing decision, around four million European citizens signed various petitions <a href="https://twitter.com/alemannoEU/status/935156666663915523" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">calling for a ban</a> on the pesticide. Behind the scenes, the organisation <a href="https://www.wemove.eu/" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">WeMove.EU</a> – which describes itself as a citizens’ movement campaigning for a better Europe – has been coordinating much of the effort.</div>
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How have they campaigned so far?</h2>
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Cmpaigners have used a range of strategies – days of action, petitions, protests – but most prominently, earlier this year <a href="https://www.wemove.eu/" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">WeMove.EU</a> launched a <a href="https://stopglyphosate.org/en/" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">European Citizens’ Initiative</a>, which has given the campaign a way into the formal EU decision making process.</div>
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The European Citizens’ Initiative is the EU’s flagship (but still not widely known) effort to establish participatory democracy in the EU. It was introduced by the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Lisbon treaty</a> and has since become a major instrument in addressing democratic change.</div>
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A citizens’ initiative has to be backed by at least one million EU citizens, coming from at least seven out of the 28 member states. These citizens can then call upon the Commission to make a legislative proposal on an issue where it is perceived that EU action is required</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 23px;"><b>Has this ever happened before?</b></span><br />
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Since <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/basic-facts" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">the initiative</a> was launched in April 2012, only four campaigns (including Ban Glyphosate) <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">have succeeded</a> in gaining one million signatures out of 47 that have been proposed. A further 21 have been rejected outright on the grounds that they fell outside the treaties. Over zealousness by the Commission in implementing the European Citizens’ Initiative, excessive requirements on organisers, and a lack of follow-up have been blamed for the low legislative impact.</div>
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So it’s not hard to see why by 2016 – just four years after coming into operation – the initiative was almost on the point of collapse. But reforms to the regulation which governs the initiative have been proposed, and the Glyphosate campaign – as well as Brexit which has prompted four <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/open" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">additional campaigns</a> – has breathed new life into it.</div>
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So has the campaign made a difference?</h2>
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Ban Glyphosate is the fastest growing campaign in the history of the European Citizens’ Initiative. And by the beginning of July 2017, the campaign had met both the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/2017/000002" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">thresholds</a> in terms of signature count and countries involved.</div>
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WeMove managed this through a combination of their network of partner organisations – including Greenpeace, Corporate Europe Observatory, Campact and over 90 other organisations. They also used a sophisticated online signature collection system, and an active social media strategy formed around the slogan: “We could get toxic Glyphosate banned, but only if we act together”.</div>
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In the UK, the campaign also received an early boost when the link was retweeted by the celebrity naturalist Chris Packham. Support from citizens in the UK was considerable and with over 94,000 signatures, it is the only one of the four successful European Citizens’ Initiatives to meet the threshold in the UK.</div>
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What’s next?</h2>
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Despite the re-licensing of glyphosate, the organisers say that banning a single pesticide was only one part of the campaign. It is claimed that highlighting the strength and depth of citizen opposition to widespread pesticide use and to the existing approval system were the ultimate goals. And efforts will no doubt continue in the EU up to Brexit, and well beyond.</div>
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That said, the UK was one of the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/food/sites/food/files/plant/docs/sc_phyto_20171127_pppl_summary.pdf" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">18 member states</a> that voted to renew the license. And ultimately, in light of this decision, the main aim of the campaign – an outright ban on the sale and use of glyphosate – looks to have so far been unsuccessful.</div>
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But despite this, the pesticide remains a source of controversy. Germany’s support for its re-licensing turned out to be the the result of a decision made by the agriculture minister, Christian Schmidt, against the views of other <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-says-christian-schmidt-did-not-follow-protocol-on-glyphosate-vote/" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">ministers and without consulting Angela Merkel</a>. While in France, Emmanuel Macron vowed to press ahead with a <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/935194060062642176" style="color: #557585; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">phasing out of the chemical within three years regardless</a> of the re-licensing. And given that the Commission is obliged to give a response to the European Citizens’ Initiative by early next year, it may still be a case of watch this space.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://theconversation.com/a-controversial-weedkiller-has-won-a-new-five-year-lease-in-europe-but-citizens-are-fighting-back-88363?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton">http://theconversation.com/a-controversial-weedkiller-has-won-a-new-five-year-lease-in-europe-but-citizens-are-fighting-back-88363?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton</a></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-54241396418383099452017-12-05T11:43:00.001-08:002017-12-05T11:43:52.302-08:00Now It's Criminal - Question of Homicide? EU Faces New Charges<h2 itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34) !important; font-family: "Maven Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8em !important; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; min-height: 1.2em; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">
Criminal complaint filed against EU authorities after glyphosate approval</h2>
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An alliance of environmental NGOs on Monday <a href="https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">launched</a> criminal proceedings in Austria, Germany, Italy, and France against the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment, BfR, over the EU approval of glyphosate.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Citing their own investigations, US court documents (the so-called "Monsanto Papers"), and a <a href="http://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17898" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">report</a> on plagiarism, the NGOs state that BfR and EFSA have not conducted an independent, objective and transparent assessment of the health risks of glyphosate, as required by the EU Pesticide Regulation 1107/2009. As a result, glyphosate has once again been approved in Europe, when it would otherwise have failed to meet the legal requirements for authorization. The NGOs are concerned that serious damage to health will occur as a result of what they term official misconduct.</div>
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Allegation of plagiarism with deliberate concealment of the author</h3>
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Substances with carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic properties are not allowed to be authorized for use as pesticides, according to the EU Pesticide Regulation. The NGOs say that BfR did not even evaluate those published studies that deal with these potential effects of glyphosate, but instead uncritically adopted the assessments from the manufacturers’ application for authorization. In the process they deliberately obscured the industry origin of the assessments, as the <a href="http://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17898" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">report</a> of the plagiarism expert, Dr Stefan Weber, notes.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As an example, Dr Helmut Burtscher-Schaden of GLOBAL 2000, who commissioned the plagiarism report from Dr Weber for the Austrian environmental organization GLOBAL 2000, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">showed</a> a graphic that reveals that 94% of BfR’s chapter on genotoxicity came from the industry dossier written by the former Monsanto employee (and later <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23480780" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">consultant</a> to the company) Larry Kier. But among the small percentage omitted is the information that would enable someone to identify that the Monsanto man was the source!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Dr Weber <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said</a> of BfR’s report, “All in all, the writers of the report must be accused of significant scientific misconduct and of fulfilling all the definitional criteria of text plagiarism in the sense of conscious deception about the true authorship.”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The authorities reject these accusations. EFSA director Bernhard Url even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said</a> they were part of "an orchestrated campaign to discredit the scientific process behind the EU assessment of glyphosate”, while EFSA’s Jose Tarazona <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told</a> the EU Parliament that the accusations of plagiarism and copy-paste come from “people that do not understand the process”. He showed examples of passages that had been copy-pasted from industry but then contradicted by the authorities, with their own comments written in italics. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But Dr Burtscher-Schaden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said</a> that Tarazona took these passages from part of the assessment report that did not deal with independent studies and which are not subject to allegations of plagiarism. He therefore believes that Tarazona misled the Parliament.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Given this disagreement between the authorities and the NGOs, Dr Burtscher-Schaden said he wanted to obtain “an independent and objective test” of the NGOs’ case from a court of law.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lawyer Dr Josef Unterweger <a href="https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">commented</a>: "If plagiarism serves to produce false evidence, then that is not just a matter of copyright. If a [pesticide] authorization authority produces an incorrect report, then it is liable for it. This is called official liability or state liability. If a pesticide is in circulation, which may have been out of circulation for years without a false report from the authority, then the authority that produced the false report is liable for any damage that has since occurred."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If such damage included causing serious illnesses like cancer, then it might even be a question of homicide, Dr Unterweger added.</div>
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No unbiased examination of scientific facts</h3>
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GLOBAL 2000 cited recently published US court records, also known as the "Monsanto papers”, as evidence that EFSA and BfR never intended to carry out a proper assessment of the link between glyphosate and cancer. The NGO refers to an email released as part of the Monsanto Papers, in which an EPA employee states that EFSA was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">minded</a> to reject IARC’s “probable carcinogen” verdict on glyphosate. This email was sent before IARC’s monograph had even been published or EFSA had begun its review of the evidence that IARC drew upon. GLOBAL 2000 believes that this shows that an independent and objective evaluation was ruled out from the start.</div>
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Suspicion of (indirect) influence by Monsanto</h3>
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According to court records released in the US, the contact person for EFSA at the US EPA was Jess Rowland, the same senior EPA toxicologist who was dubbed Monsanto's "mole" at the EPA. He is <a href="https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">suspected</a> of having conspired with Monsanto and is alleged to have successfully prevented an independent cancer assessment of glyphosate by another US agency. It also appears that he <a href="https://corporateeurope.org/food-and-agriculture/2017/06/did-efsa-lie-press-its-glyphosate-assessment" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">influenced</a> EFSA to give glyphosate a clean bill of health in a teleconference with EU member states, GLOBAL 2000 stated.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />PAN Germany's toxicologist and board member, Dr Peter Clausing, revealed in May 2017 that at this teleconference, a remark by Jess Rowland led EFSA to exclude a pivotal cancer study from its assessment. GLOBAL 2000 said, “A satisfactory scientific justification could not be provided by EFSA.”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For all the above reasons, the environmental organizations GLOBAL 2000, PAN Europe, PAN Germany, PAN Italia and Generations Futures are filing criminal charges against BfR and EFSA. The NGOs are also concerned that if the regulatory authorities failed to conduct themselves properly in the case of glyphosate, they may have done the same with many other pesticides.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />GLOBAL 2000 <a href="https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">commented</a>: “The shortcomings in the approval process of glyphosate have shaken the confidence of Europeans in the authorities and the authorization process. Comprehensive reform and education is required. This can be done by judicial investigations, but also by parliamentary investigations. Only when this happens and the necessary consequences are drawn can the confidence of Europeans in their institutions be restored in the long term.”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />GLOBAL 2000 said the case could not be taken straight to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and that the groups instead aimed to escalate it to the ECJ via a domestic court. But the ECJ <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-health-glyphosate-lawsuit/environmentalists-say-theyll-try-to-sue-german-eu-authorities-over-glyphosate-idUSKBN1DY1QT" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told</a> Reuters it was not possible to take pan-European EFSA to a national court. However, as BfR is a domestic agency within Germany, it seems that it would not be protected in this way. As for the case against EFSA, Dr Burtscher-Schaden told GMWatch that the NGOs were considering various ways forward.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Helmut Burtscher-Schaden’s book, </em>The Glyphosate Files: Smoke and mirrors in the pesticide approvals process<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, is available here:</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Glyphosate-Files-Mirrors-Pesticide-Approvals-ebook/dp/B076VRF8PP" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Glyphosate-Files-Mirrors-Pesticide-Approvals-ebook/dp/B076VRF8PP</a></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Video released by GLOBAL 2000 to accompany the press conference announcing the court actions:</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_IStchz7c&feature=youtu.be</a></em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Article in German by GLOBAL 2000: <a href="https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0297c6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.global2000.at/en/node/5345</a></em></div>
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Source: <a href="http://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18015-criminal-complaint-failed-against-eu-authorities-after-glyphosate-approval">http://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18015-criminal-complaint-failed-against-eu-authorities-after-glyphosate-approval</a></div>
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Scandal erupts around German glyphosate vote</h2>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Minister of agriculture goes rogue, votes for glyphosate renewal in spite of environment minister's opposition</em></div>
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Today a qualified majority of EU member states voted for the Commission proposal to renew the authorization of glyphosate for five years. Germany voted in favour, despite having previously abstained from voting on the topic due to a difference of opinion between the environment ministry (which opposes renewal) and the agriculture ministry (which supports it).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Now a number of news reports circulating in Germany indicate that the German YES to glyphosate was sent to Brussels by the minister for agriculture Christian Schmidt (CSU, Bavarian Regionalist Conservatives), without the consent of and even against a explicit written veto by his colleague, the minister of environment Barbara Hendricks (SPD, Social Democrats). <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This is a serious and unexpected break of procedure and trust within the government.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The division in the German government over glyphosate has been confirmed by Hendricks in the following words (confirmed by her spokesperson in writing): <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Exactly two hours before the start of the Appeals Committee meeting, today at 12:30, I clearly stated to my colleague Mr Schmidt over the phone that I still disagree with renewing the approval of glyphosate, even under certain conditions. It was therefore also clear that Germany had to abstain at the appeal committee meeting. At 13:07, Mr Schmidt confirmed to me by SMS that the disagreement remains.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Apparently at the same time a different directive was issued to the representative of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Brussels than was agreed between us. Anyone interested in building trust between interlocutors cannot behave in that way."[1]</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17999-scandal-erupts-around-german-glyphosate-vote">http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17999-scandal-erupts-around-german-glyphosate-vote</a></div>
Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-68010124036494621642017-11-13T10:18:00.000-08:002017-11-13T10:18:02.125-08:00USA - ALL 50 STATES DEMAND GOVERNORS TO BAN GLYPHOSATE<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EiRqUTiqXYE/WgnhpLqG1pI/AAAAAAAAEis/NMnyRJztj8ohCAakaeAo4sknmHma-9_lACLcBGAs/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="269" height="138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EiRqUTiqXYE/WgnhpLqG1pI/AAAAAAAAEis/NMnyRJztj8ohCAakaeAo4sknmHma-9_lACLcBGAs/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Press release </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For Immediate Release</b></span></span></div>
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Contact: <a href="mailto:info@momsacrossamerica.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@momsacrossamerica.org</a></div>
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Mission Viejo, CA -<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.momsacrossamerica.org/&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNHSIEE5HUk8GW9_vrpzJnAYqgxoWQ" href="http://www.momsacrossamerica.org/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Moms Across America"> Moms Across America </a>announces a nationwide campaign to ban glyphosate herbicides in all fifty of the United States. Support from The California Guild, Organic Consumers Association, Institute for Responsible Technology and Thinking Moms Revolution, with millions of supporters collectively, urge state governors to protect their residents and children. </div>
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<span id="m_1643887611720049954gmail-m_1635166493293839525gmail-docs-internal-guid-523fe938-b3ca-410f-54ad-3a22686eadc1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“European Member states, after considering volumes of scientific studies and numerous testimonies by lawyers and researchers, have refused to renew the license for glyphosate. If it is not safe for Europeans, and Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina who have banned glyphosate, then we do not want glyphosate in our United States. We urge our governors to take bold steps like the Governor of Arkansas and Missouri did in banning Dicamba, and ban glyphosate herbicides and toxic chemicals immediately.”</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Zen Honeycutt, Executive Director of Moms Across America</span></span></div>
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Glyphosate herbicides or Monsanto'sRoundUp weed killer, the most widely used herbicide in history, has been proven to cause <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/data&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNG82uhiCSz3W0gsfU-OaSehORitmg" href="http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/data" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Glyphosate studies">serious harm to life</a>. Glyphosate has contaminated our planet and is now found in our children's urine, mother's milk, our bloodstreams, and our food, beverages, and water.</div>
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In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization found that glyphosate “is a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinogens&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNGm5SjIOH12PGUNdfzupFWhKG7rgQ" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinogens" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="IARC list">probable human carcinogen</a>.”</div>
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In July of 2017 the California State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added glyphosate to its <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/crnr/glyphosate-listed-effective-july-7-2017-known-state-california-cause-cancer&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNHxVNvFOeoEb0pu9h0Bm4nIu-DYEA" href="https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/crnr/glyphosate-listed-effective-july-7-2017-known-state-california-cause-cancer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Prop 65 list">Prop 65 </a>list of known carcinogens.</div>
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In October of 2017, after 1 million Europeans requested a ban, 72% of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://sustainablepulse.com/2017/10/24/meps-vote-to-ban-glyphosate-in-european-union-in-2022/%23.WgktHhNSzOQ&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNG8Vyq78omA17kVsQg0ylpuY3Brqg" href="https://sustainablepulse.com/2017/10/24/meps-vote-to-ban-glyphosate-in-european-union-in-2022/#.WgktHhNSzOQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Members of the European Parliament voted to BAN glyphosate</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://sustainablepulse.com/2017/11/09/eu-member-states-say-no-to-glyphosate-again-5-year-authorization-fails/&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNH7QoI7Y6hk6CnA_8D6njX-7I4yzg" href="https://sustainablepulse.com/2017/11/09/eu-member-states-say-no-to-glyphosate-again-5-year-authorization-fails/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="No renewal of glyphosate in EU">EU Member states have refused to renew the license.</a></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://news.backtotheroots.com/2016/08/28/glyphosate-a-complete-list-of-all-countries-that-have-banned-it/&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNEGAxPPFjUmFQSsFv5E0u1mJgNmgQ" href="http://news.backtotheroots.com/2016/08/28/glyphosate-a-complete-list-of-all-countries-that-have-banned-it/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Bans">Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina</a> have banned glyphosate. Many school districts and cities in the United States have already discontinued the use of glyphosate.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glyphosate ban requests are already being considered by Governor Brown of California from the California Guild. Pesticides including glyphosate have already been banned in<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/environmental_health/eoha/pdf/turf_mgt_without_pesticides.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNHTAbBZ4ttSTZWlommZ36MgjM-uXw" href="http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/environmental_health/eoha/pdf/turf_mgt_without_pesticides.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="CT ban"> Connecticut</a> for use on school and daycare grounds. The Governors of Arkansas and Missouri have already <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i29/Arkansas-Missouri-ban-dicamba-herbicide.html?type%3DpaidArticleContent&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNEy-8LRQyZCmUSvLG4LYbI4aN-9PA" href="https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i29/Arkansas-Missouri-ban-dicamba-herbicide.html?type=paidArticleContent" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Arkansas and Missouri">banned Dicamba</a>, proving that statewide action can be taken to protect citizens.</span></div>
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Glyphosate herbicides have also been found to be linked to various cancers specifically<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/data&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNG82uhiCSz3W0gsfU-OaSehORitmg" href="http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/data" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> lymphoma, are endocrine disruptors, neurotoxic, and a cause of liver disease</a>. Global studies show that we are routinely exposed to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesmaam/pages/680/attachments/original/1467028803/pesticides-factsheet-specialrelease-glyphosate.pdf?1467028803&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNFeEHE6uBOwkeRkfHoXWtx4K2kUAA" href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesmaam/pages/680/attachments/original/1467028803/pesticides-factsheet-specialrelease-glyphosate.pdf?1467028803" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="PAN">dangerous levels of glyphosate. </a>Millions of citizens in all fifty states come in contact with glyphosate daily. The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/e1757&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNGLTVd-ZOfy5LDQttSYGUAlrhHWEg" href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/e1757" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="AAP">American Academy of Pediatrics has stated </a>that our children are the most vulnerable to pesticides, we need to take action to protect the future of our state.</div>
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Over 1000 Americans are <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-lawsuit-wisconsin-2445162053.html&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNGI07AYvJG5sRrvUArxovc-pNcD3Q" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-lawsuit-wisconsin-2445162053.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Lawsuits against monsanto">currently suing Monsanto</a>, the manufacturer of glyphosate herbicides, for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2017/06/inspector-general-investigates-alleged-monsanto-epa-collusion-reject-glyphosate-cancer-classification/&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNFZ5Fs25TEgjuz9Cs7nMf1_PKDyyw" href="http://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2017/06/inspector-general-investigates-alleged-monsanto-epa-collusion-reject-glyphosate-cancer-classification/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="DOJ">The Justice Department is investigating Monsanto</a> for corruption, coverups, and collusion with the EPA in relation to the carcinogenic effects of glyphosate.</div>
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All 50 state governors are being petitioned by moms and supporters through <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.change.org/search?q%3Dban%2520glyphosate&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNHM1CmTxGbKPIx5xWU0SitreWTmgg" href="https://www.change.org/search?q=ban%20glyphosate" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="Petition">Change.org</a> and local state residents from each state are launching a mail-in campaign today requesting meetings with their governors. The campaign came together in just 5 days after <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.thedoctorstv.com/episodes/drs-exclusive-glyphosate-lawsuit-claims-cancer-link&source=gmail&ust=1510683000120000&usg=AFQjCNH5i0h3qC6NfLF1Ugj5vjJk4q2epQ" href="https://www.thedoctorstv.com/episodes/drs-exclusive-glyphosate-lawsuit-claims-cancer-link" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="The Doctors">The Doctors</a> aired an episode of the Monsanto lawsuit and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-eu-glyphosate/eu-countries-refuse-to-back-new-license-for-glyphosate-weed-killer-idUSKCN0YS0Y0&source=gmail&ust=1510683000121000&usg=AFQjCNEXd0plxyBwCRLBKcRsikAEtH_tqg" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-eu-glyphosate/eu-countries-refuse-to-back-new-license-for-glyphosate-weed-killer-idUSKCN0YS0Y0" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">EU members refused to renew glyphosate.</a></div>
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Honeycutt adds, “Now is the time. Our country is in an unaffordable and tragic <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/united-states-comes-last-again-health-compared-other-countries-n684851&source=gmail&ust=1510683000121000&usg=AFQjCNHDPzHbkh5SjTt0FUp44Dbg6K8CdA" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/united-states-comes-last-again-health-compared-other-countries-n684851" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="health crisis">public health crisis.</a> Toxic chemicals have been shown to contribute to or cause many of these health issues, especially for our children. It’s time for our states to take actions that our EPA is not willing to take. They can, must and we believe, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">will</em> protect our citizens from irreparable harm. It’s just a matter of which state will be the first to ban glyphosate?”</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="r_lapi" href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/california.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California</a> has banned farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centers under a new rule announced Tuesday that regulators said is among the toughest in the U.S.</span></b></div>
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Under the new rule, California farmers will be prohibited from spraying pesticides within a quarter mile (0.4 kilometers) of public K-12 schools and licensed daycare centers from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the school week, the <a class="r_lapi" href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/state-department.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">state Department</a> of Pesticide Regulation said in a statement.</div>
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<b>The new regulations take effect Jan. 1</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> and apply to crop dusters flying over fields, air blasters spraying orchards and fumigants along with most dust and powder pesticides that could be blown onto school grounds by the wind.</span></div>
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"These rules will help to further protect the health of children, teachers and school staff from unintended <a class="r_lapi" href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/environment/pesticides-in-bloodstream.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pesticide exposure</a>," Brian Leahy, the department's director said in the statement.</div>
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Some California counties already require buffer zones between schools and areas where pesticides are sprayed on crops.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">But the new rule is the first statewide standard of its kind, the department said. It is meant to </span><b>safeguard about 4,100 schools and day cares and will affect about 2,500 California farms</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> growing everything from almonds, strawberries and grapes to produce wine, officials said. </span><b>Violators will face fines up to $5,000.</b></div>
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<b>Farmers will also be required to annually tell schools and county agriculture offices about the pesticides they expect to use near school buildings. School officials will have the option of deciding whether to share that information with parents.</b></div>
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Farmers who criticize the new rule have said they are being unfairly targeted because schools often build campuses on cheaper land outside of town centers where the farmers tilled the soil long before students arrived.</div>
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"Nobody is going to argue, we need to do whatever we can to protect our children," said Bruce Blodgett, executive director of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation. "But we need to take a step back here. It's not that the farms went to the schools, the schools were built in the farm areas. We need better guidelines about where we're building schools."</div>
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Farmers are mindful of neighboring schools and don't spray crops with pesticides when it could harm children, he said.</div>
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<b>But officials said more than 50 people have been sickened since 2005 by pesticides that drifted onto school campuses</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, illustrating the need for the stricter regulations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">In the </span><b>most recent incident, about two dozen students and staff at Coachella Valley High School in Riverside County reported feeling ill in October 2015 after a grower used a pesticide near the school and the wind changed direction</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, said Charlotte Fadipe, a pesticide department spokeswoman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">Under the rule, </span><b>farmers will be limited to spraying near schools at night and on weekends</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, when students are usually not on campus.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Source: </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Proxima-Nova, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-bans-farming-pesticides-schools-50996179">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-bans-farming-pesticides-schools-50996179</a></span></div>
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Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-792666617927856382017-10-25T08:01:00.000-07:002017-10-25T08:01:30.537-07:00NO GLYPHOSATE RENEWAL EU VOTE - MOVED TO NOV 6 2017<h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title" data-fontsize="20" data-lineheight="22" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 20px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding-bottom: 0px;">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Newsflash – 25th October, 11am – EU fails to renew glyphosate and delays decision until 6th November</strong></div>
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Following today’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) it appears that we are no nearer to an answer on the future of glyphosate in the European Union.</div>
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Representatives of Member States failed to reach agreement on whether or not the controversial weed killer should have its approval renewed. The European Commission’s proposal to renew it for periods of either ten, seven or five years all failed to gain sufficient support. The Commission will now take into account the views of Member States and return in November for further discussions.</div>
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<b>However, in what can be seen to be very encouraging news, there was more opposition to approving glyphosate than had been expected. Belgium, Greece, Croatia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Slovenia and Sweden were all opposed to renewal.</b></div>
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Sadly the UK was in favour of continued use of glyphosate thus following its long ignoble tradition of siding with the pesticide industry rather than voting for greater protection for the health and environment of the people of the UK.</div>
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The vote is now due to be held in just under two weeks’ time on 6th November. PAN UK will continue to work with our colleagues to put pressure on relevant decision makers to ban glyphosate in the EU once and for all.</div>
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PAN UK welcomes the result of today’s (Tuesday, 24th October) vote in the European Parliament which passed a Resolution calling for restrictions on the use of the controversial weed killer glyphosate. Whilst the resolution does not call for an immediate ban it does insist on a phase out of all uses within the EU by 2022. <b><span style="font-size: large;">Also included on the recommendations of the Resolution are calls for an immediate ban on all non-agricultural uses of glyphosate.</span></b></div>
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PAN UK once again applauds the European Parliament and the MEPs, including those of the UK that supported this Resolution. Whilst it is non-binding it sends a clear message that the will of the people of the EU and of their representatives in Parliament clearly see that it is time to get rid of this insidious chemical.</div>
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It is to be hoped that this Resolution, the 1.3 million signatures from EU Citizens and the clear evidence that viable alternatives are available will be reflected on Wednesday, 25th October, when the final decision on glyphosate approval is expected to be delivered by the European Commission.</div>
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Find further information:<span style="color: #747474;"> </span><a href="http://www.pan-uk.org/ban-glyphosate/" style="color: #747474;">http://www.pan-uk.org/ban-glyphosate/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2017-0567&language=EN" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Resolution text</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-europe.info/files/public/resources/reports/Alternative%20methods%20in%20weed%20managment%20to%20glyphosate_PAN%20Europe_171018.pdf" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">PAN Europe report on alternatives to glyphosate</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/more-than-1-3-million-demand-eu-glyphosate-ban/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f78300; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">European Citizens Initiative</a></div>
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Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-82395643590397079632017-09-14T09:40:00.003-07:002017-09-14T09:40:53.973-07:00USDA SUED BY MILLIONS TO KEEP HIGHEST ORGANIC STANDARD <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 13, 2017) </b>– Taking action to defend the organic seal and organic standards, the Organic Trade Association <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1455921382" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its failure to put into effect new organic livestock standards.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are standing up on behalf of the entire organic sector to protect organic integrity, advance animal welfare, and demand the government keep up with the industry and the consumer in setting organic standards,” said Laura Batcha, Executive Director and CEO of the Organic Trade Association.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The suit alleges the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated the Organic Foods Production Act, and unlawfully delayed the effective date of the final livestock standards that were developed by industry and in accordance with the processes established by Congress, and with abusing the agency’s discretion by ignoring the overwhelming public record established in support of these organic standards. The trade association further contends that the Trump Administration’s Regulatory freeze order issued to federal agencies on Jan. 20, 2017, should not apply to organic standards because they are voluntary and are required only of those farms and businesses that opt in to be certified organic.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supporting the Organic Trade Association in the suit, as groups harmed by this protracted government inaction, are organizations representing organic livestock farmers, organic certification agencies, and organic retailers and consumers.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Batcha said the Organic Trade Association’s duty to protect the U.S. organic sector and enable it to advance, to uphold the integrity of the organic seal and to honor the consumer trust in that seal compelled the association – on behalf of the organic industry -- to take the legal action against the Administration.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The organic industry takes very seriously its contract with the consumer and will not stand aside while the government holds back the meaningful and transparent choice of organic foods that deliver what the consumer wants,” said Batcha. “The government’s failure to move ahead with this fully-vetted regulation calls into question the entire process by which organic regulations are set – a process that Congress created, the industry has worked within, and consumers trust.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The viability of the organic market rests on consumer trust in the USDA Organic seal, and trust that the organic seal represents a meaningful differentiation from other agricultural practices,” said Batcha, who noted that the Board of the Organic Trade Association voted unanimously to initiate the lawsuit.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>The Organic Livestock and Poultry Production rule, commonly referred to as the Organic Animal Welfare Rule, is the result of 14 years of public and transparent work within the process established by Congress, and reflects deep engagement and input by organic stakeholders during multiple administrations, both Republican and Democrat.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It addresses four broad areas of organic livestock and poultry practices, including living conditions, animal healthcare, transport, and slaughter. The OLPP represents a refinement and clarification of a series of organic animal welfare recommendations incorporated into the Organic Foods Production Act of 2002, which established the federal regulations overseeing the U.S. organic sector.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After extensive public input and a thorough vetting process that included the transparent review and recommendation process of the National Organic Standards Board, an audit by the Agriculture Department’s Office of Inspector General and solid economic analysis by the National Organic Program, the National Organic Program released the final rule on Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices on January 19, 2017, and published it in the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Federal Register</i> on that day. Due to a White House Memorandum to federal agencies released on January 20, 2017, requesting a regulatory freeze on rules recently published or pending, the effective date of the rule was delayed to May 19,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 10, 2017, the USDA delayed the effective date again by an additional six months to November 14, 2017, and opened a 30-day comment period asking for responses to four possible options for the Final Rule:</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Producers are organic because they choose to be. It’s a voluntary system, and the organic sector welcomes clear and fair standards under which to operate,” said Batcha. “Organic regulations apply only to certified organic producers, and those organic producers are overwhelmingly in favor of this new regulation. Most of the criticism of the new organic animal welfare rule has come from outside the sector, and by special interest groups not impacted by the regulation, but which would like to override the will of our members.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is important to note this issue did not just arise in 2017, rather it is the result of many years of failure of good government,” Batcha added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The organic industry has been fighting for this rule for years,” said Jesse Laflamme, owner and CEO of organic egg producer Pete and Gerry’s Organics. “Certified organic egg, dairy and animal producers hold their operations to a higher standard of animal welfare than is required, because it is the right thing to do and it is what our customers expect. The organic industry works hard to live up to the expectation of its consumers, and we expect the USDA to live up to its mandate to oversee the industry in a way that is fair and will enable us to continue to prosper.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The organic consumer and community have worked closely with USDA to help craft this sound regulation, and have followed the established rulemaking process. For the Administration to now let political pressure derail that progress is an assault on the trust in the organic process that the organic industry works so hard every day to earn,” said Siemon. “Organic Valley works with thousands of organic dairy, laying hen, beef, hog and poultry producers, and has long advocated for action to clarify the living conditions and expectations for animal care in organic. Animal living conditions and welfare are a critical part of an organic livestock system. We in organic need to lead on this front, and the consumer’s trust in organic needs to be respected.”</span></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That USDA has violated the Administrative Procedure Act because the repeated delays were issued without any public process.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That USDA has violated the Administrative Procedure Act and abused its discretion by proposing action to indefinitely delay or kill the rule, in stark contrast to the established public process.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That USDA has violated the Organic Foods Production Act and its consultation provisions enacted to apply in just these circumstances for industry and public stakeholders to revise, refine, and advance organic standards via a well defined process.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That the Trump Administration Executive Order freezing regulations should not apply to the voluntary industry-driven organic standards that allow for businesses to opt in or out.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lawsuit also describes the extensive public process and overwhelming record used to develop the standards, and details the faulty appeals decision from USDA on the use of “porches” to comply with the existing outdoor access requirements of the standard that have resulted in an uneven playing field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Organic Trade Association asks the court to reverse the agency’s decisions to delay and eliminate options proposed by USDA to further delay, rewrite, or permanently shelve the rule -- thereby making the final livestock rule effective immediately, as written.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supporting the Organic Trade Association are groups harmed by USDA action including:</span></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative owned by more than 2,000 organic farm families;</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesse Laflamme of Pete & Gerry’s Eggs partnering with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;">over 100 independent, family-owned and operated farms across 14 states</span>;</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Co+op Grocers and its 200 retailer food co-ops owned by over 1.3 million consumers;</span></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; padding-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Accredited Certifiers Association n<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">on-profit educational organization whose members include </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">53 accredited certification agencies </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">working to ensure the integrity of organic certification in the United States.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consumers buying organic because they know it makes a difference</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American consumers are eating more organic food than ever before, show the findings of the Organic Trade Association’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">2017 Organic Industry Survey</i>. Organic food sales in the U.S. totaled $43.1 billion in 2016, marking the first time organic food sales in this country have broken through the $40 billion mark. Organic food now accounts for more than five percent of total food sales in this country, another significant first for organic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organic meat and poultry sales posted new records in 2016, increasing by more than 17 percent to $991 million, for the category’s biggest-ever yearly gain. Sales are expected to surpass the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2017. Growing awareness of organic’s more encompassing benefits over natural, grass-fed or hormone-free meats and poultry is spurring consumer interest in organic meat and poultry aisles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In March 2017, Consumer Reports National Research Center conducted a national phone survey on the opinions of Americans regarding the organic label. The survey found that six out of ten Americans said it is highly important that the animals used to produce organic food are raised on farms with high standards for animal welfare. For consumers who always or often buy organic, this number rose to 86 percent. Also, more than half of Americans say it is highly important that eggs labeled organic come from hens able to go outdoors and move freely outside. Among consumers who always or often buy organic, that number rises to 83 percent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">“Consumers rely on organic livestock and poultry being raised according to the highest standards, and they trust that the organic seal is an assurance of those high standards,” said Batcha. “The organic sector does not take for granted the trust of the consumers we serve, and we work hard every single day to maintain it. </span>Organic is an opt-in regulated marketing program that ensures products bearing the USDA Organic seal meet strict consistently applied standards and provide the consumer a meaningful choice. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">The future of the organic market rests on consumer trust, and the organic sector depends on the USDA to set organic standards fairly and according to the law.”</span></span></span></div>
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<strong>Source:</strong> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D67942cfe7b%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564748000&usg=AFQjCNHpVFnz-UTXQ77mWf8MEP7uD6s8nA" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=67942cfe7b&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>sustainablepulse.com/2017/07/<wbr></wbr>12/glyphosate-residue-free-<wbr></wbr>food-label-starts-wave-of-<wbr></wbr>transparency-for-us-brands/#.<wbr></wbr>WWY7o4R97IU</a><br /><br />Chosen Foods and Heavenly Organics have started a wave of Glyphosate Residue Free certified brands in the U.S., in what is being described as a “consumer-based push for transparency”.<br /><br />The past week has seen the first wave of Glyphosate Residue Free brands entering the U.S. grocery market and many large brands including USDA organic and non-GMO certified brands have shown deep interest in the new certification.<br /><br /><strong>Why are brands interested in Glyphosate Residue Free certification?</strong><br /><br />Glyphosate is the most used pesticide in the World and has the highest public profile of any chemical used in food production. It has been found in a range of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3De5543cde66%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564748000&usg=AFQjCNGBYhQV4SBRcVgvt1q9vYuB6KEITA" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=e5543cde66&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">popular American food products</a> and in the urine of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D3554966cc2%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564748000&usg=AFQjCNHpn7PQ4uHO-JiQzIZN8kH1Zb_PoQ" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=3554966cc2&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">93% of people tested</a> by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).<br /><br />The revelation from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2015 that glyphosate is a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3Db444459779%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564748000&usg=AFQjCNFnshGCm_AyNlJe_VEckkyxDY1GRA" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=b444459779&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">‘probable human carcinogen’</a> has led to consumers around the World asking for transparency regarding the levels of glyphosate in their food.<br /><br />Henry Rowlands, Director of The Detox Project (owner of the Glyphosate Residue Free label), stated <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2044107734" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> that “Glyphosate Residue Free certification enables food manufacturers to give consumers what they really want – glyphosate residue free food.<br /><br />“Currently the toxic chemical testing standards for both non-organic and organic food are very weak but we aim to change this by certifying ingredients and food products – consumers have the right to know what toxic chemicals are in the food they buy at grocery stores across the U.S.”<br /><br /><strong><em>Information Box</em></strong><br /><strong><em><u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D894448d378%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564748000&usg=AFQjCNFOTSvCXOPQ34gnIxDLTXvj4NK90A" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=894448d378&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Verified Products</a></u></em></strong><br /><strong><em><u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D008b1d888c%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNEZQEX0K8poVapjqRUYtrZOQnkZ2Q" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=008b1d888c&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Verification FAQs</a></u></em></strong><br /><strong><em><u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3Dee0ca3dd71%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNFkZKn6uyiJAjRST3Gg9hS91sBhsA" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=ee0ca3dd71&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">The Process</a></u></em></strong><br /><strong><em><u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3Db5addd6e02%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNHhSwHnIbAvAOJeQ_otE5v_LqUpiw" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=b5addd6e02&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">The Standard</a></u></em></strong><br /><strong><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D7169c2f8d2%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNGc63sY55mtaiqFsM_6aETNT5OPCw" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=7169c2f8d2&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Get Verified</a></em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Chosen Foods</strong><br /><br /><strong>9 products certified Glyphosate Residue Free, including their famous 100% Pure Avocado Oil.</strong><br /><br />Chosen Foods was founded by a well-traveled Naturopathic Doctor who discovered the powerful effect traditional foods were having in their native cultures. He was inspired to share these ancient superfoods with the rest of the world - and so their journey began.<br /><br />In the last 3 years, Chosen Foods has launched 15 cooking oils, condiments, ancient grains and snacks. They have gone from 5 to 30 employees and seen their products reach more then 24,000 grocery store shelves around the United States and Canada.<br /><br /><strong>Heavenly Organics</strong><br /><br /><strong>9 products certified Glyphosate Residue Free, including their Acacia, Neem and White Honey</strong><br /><br />Heavenly Organics supports nearly 600 family farmers in India and produces 100% Organic Raw Honey, Chocolate Honey Patties and 100% Organic Whole Cane Sugar.<br /><br />Their work helps displaced people find markets to sell their goods and ensures them a reliable income. Without it, their means of livelihood would be very limited. For the past decade, Heavenly Organics has been leading the authentic fair trade movement and creating big change. Their goal is to increase the number of farmers they work with to 5,000 in the next five years and to extend this business model into other countries to help create long-lasting sustainable economies in other isolated areas and conflict zones.<br /><br />HELP BY FOLLOWING US ON <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D66542ec094%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNHn2-_qC8hKVwJF8LQP4sM_ysMgfA" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=66542ec094&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> AND <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3D21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f%26id%3D8f13869151%26e%3D7ff06773d2&source=gmail&ust=1499966564749000&usg=AFQjCNGbMtr2Teai1w9mqnRHcUElMKVjkQ" href="http://detoxproject.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21ed66df3ac2e4fd6490fd90f&id=8f13869151&e=7ff06773d2" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">TWITTER</a></div>
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Henry Rowlands, Director, The Detox Project – <a href="mailto:henry@detoxproject.org" style="color: #26abe2;" target="_blank">henry@detoxproject.org</a></div>
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<strong><u>About The Detox Project</u></strong></div>
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The Detox Project is a research and certification platform that brings awareness to the public by testing for toxic chemicals.</div>
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We believe you have the right to know what toxic chemicals are in your body and in your food!</div>
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Clean Food Earth Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108942750678982306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036879016661899629.post-40582267922818064552017-07-03T17:21:00.001-07:002017-07-03T17:21:16.893-07:00MARK CALENDARS: JULY 7, 2017 DAY OF ACTION and CELEBRATION <br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #a64d79; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">On July 7 2017!! </span></b></div>
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<b>Celebrate BOTH the Addition of Glyphosate </b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #a64d79; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">to the CA Prop 65 Toxic List </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #a64d79;">National Return RoundUp Day!</b></span></h2>
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<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Use your dollar to send the message: on daily "acceptable levels" of exposure to glyphosate: ZERO! ZILCH! NADA!</span></b></div>
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