{"id":5098,"date":"2019-02-08T18:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?page_id=5098"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:13:24","slug":"the-glyphosate-saga-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?page_id=5098&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Glyphosate Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4985 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs-256x132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs-256x132.png 256w, https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs-368x190.png 368w, https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs-700x361.png 700w, https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Glyphosate3Dballs.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/>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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is a chronicle of the vagaries through which this substance has passed. It will necessarily have to be updated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=4940&#038;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent blog post was published<\/a>\u00a0about the glyphosate issue,<br \/>as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?page_id=5103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">more detailed explanations<\/a>\u00a0(both in French)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?pdfemb-data=eyJwZGZJRCI6NTEyNSwidGl0bGUiOiJzYWdhLWdseXBob3NhdGUtZW4iLCJpbmRleCI6MSwicGRmZW1iLXNlcnZldXJsIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZibG9nLm1yLWludC5jaCUyRndwLWNvbnRlbnQlMkZ1cGxvYWRzJTJGc2VjdXJlcGRmcyUyRjIwMTklMkYwMiUyRnNhZ2EtZ2x5cGhvc2F0ZS1lbi5wZGYiLCJ3bV90ZXh0IjoiIn0\"\n\t\t\t\ttitle=\"saga-glyphosate-en\"\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"5125\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;height:1087px;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?page_id=5098&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00a0The Glyphosate Saga\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5098","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}