The scientific information available on glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world, is particularly abundant. While all government experts agree in their risk assessments that this active substance meets all safety requirements for human health and the environment, the French government, powerful environmental lobbies and the media supporting them aim to ban its use. This posture is unfounded, therefore indefensible. The public is confused between the serious work of responsible experts and the political manoeuvring that prevents their views from being taken into account.
Below is a chronicle of the vagaries through which this substance has passed. It will necessarily have to be updated.
A recent blog post was published about the glyphosate issue,as well as more detailed explanations (both in French)
