[pumnikol]

I've been in the field for many years and I see the EU on the forefront of public chemical safety, both in terms of legislation and enforcement. ECHA is transparent about glyphosate [1]. It is not even labelled as CMR on REACH Annex III [2], and that's saying a lot. If you follow the developments, you will find that there is no way to prove a chemical as "safe". All it takes is one bloke on record to develop any health condition which can be linked to a chemical, and it will be scrutinized six ways to Sundays. Often leading to the introduction or decrease of an OEL, or a classification of this substance. As new humans are born all of the time, and diagnostics and analysis methods are still being improved, the likelihood of any given chemical to be "harmless" asymptotically approaches zero. 1 in 2 people develop cancer during their lives [3]. There are currently > 23000 chemicals on the EEA market at >= 1 t/a [4].

1 https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/glyphosate 2 https://www.echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals/annex-ii... 3 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/ 4 https://echa.europa.eu/registration-statistics

[nswest23]

Pretty standard shilling here. This comment is designed to induce apathy by making the problem seem insurmountable and so convince you that it's impossible to know anything so why bother trying [to remove cancer inducing chemicals from the food supply].

[zelphirkalt]

However, there are people in the EU, who prolonged glyphosat usage for another few years, against the principles of the EU to only allow proven safe products.

And they are still pushing CETA, which supposedly weakens standards for food and gives companies more rights to sue countries, when new protective laws are made.

EU does many good things, but is far from always being on the lookout for the wellbeing of its people.

[emodendroket]

US regulators seemingly subscribe to the "three monkeys" approach where they assume everything being added to your food is safe and don't ask too many questions unless compelled.