Gliphosate stays in the Union until 2033 – with fresh restrictions, but without prohibition. The most crucial thing for the Polish village is that it is no longer allowed to dry crops before harvesting; the product can be utilized mainly before sowing. However, there are inactive "scientific" assurances of full safety in circulation, any of them being developed under the dictatorship of industry. This is simply a textbook example of “cleaning authority”: erstwhile the message entered into circulation lives its own life – until it reaches our table.
The fact that the global Agency for investigation on Cancer in 2017 recognised glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogenic’, We've already written. Let's review the most crucial data:
- In French studies, glyphosate was detected in more than 53% of food samples, including 87.5% of breakfast cereals. Another study, conducted by a squad of German scientists, found the presence of glyphosate in 6 out of 14 beers available on store shelves.
- In many cities, it is sprayed along sidewalks and streets and in gaps between pavements; it is besides utilized to clean railway tracks.
- Studies indicate that herbicides based on glyphosate may affect gene mutations and exhibit toxicity to surviving organisms.
There is simply a request for further research, but these stay underfunded.
What is actually changing the EU decision on glyphosate?
The EU decision is simply a consequence of a quiet, academic debate on risks and deficiency of evidence – marginal in European media. The fact that the subject is overlooked in the media does not invalidate the problem – it only delays its appropriate recognition. In Poland, the Institute of civilian Affairs wrote about possible harm, and especially about the undocumented safety of herbicide.
The European Union extended the authorisation of glyphosate until 2033, while prohibiting its usage just before harvest.
Use before sowing and in interplants, where plants intended for consumption are not straight sprayed, is allowed. The practice of spraying just before the harvest was intended to facilitate field work and equalize puberty, but carried the top hazard of residues of poisonous substances in food. The mechanics is simple: glyphosate simultaneously inhibits the growth of plants, stems dries faster, grain ripens evenly, and harvester passes through the hinds without stopping on green fragments. The problem is that the treatment was done erstwhile the grain was already mostly formed – so the residue of the average went straight to the seeds and from there to our plates.
What to do: retreat the measurement and clean up the sources
If the past of glyphosate legitimacy in the European Union teaches something, it is that without solid verification on the side of publishers and academic editorials, toxic thesis circulates for years like neutral knowledge.
The EU decision reduces the hazard on the plate but does not replace reliable cleaning in literature or investment in cheaper alternatives in the field.
This is the minute for 2 parallel paths: editorial honesty (clear marking and withdrawing contaminated works) and public money for technologies that will give farmers a real choice. Otherwise, in 2033, we will return to the same conversation.
