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Tong centre's customer service earns a White Rose award
Grange commits to advanced pressure treatment on all timber products
Smart Garden Products expands export team
Garden centre to train special needs students
Capel Manor students wins cash for Regents Park plant design project
Ready, steady...it's potato pot time
Kent & Stowe Garden Life cultivates incremental sales
The Pied Piper of Melville - GTN's interview with Nicholas Marshall
EU D-day for glyphosate is next Thursday
Ireland’s Fast Grow targets 250 UK retailers 
Top 5 plant best-sellers increase share of sales
ICL to promote learning as HTA's Nursery Supply Show partner
Angels and chocolate sprouts push up Christmas sales
GCA launches search for marketing champion
First frosts see fleece and pot feet sales surge
New lightweight planters from Haddonstone
It's an October low for growing activity
Geoff gets growing his tash again for Hereford hospice
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EU D-day for glyphosate is next Thursday

The immediate future of glyphosate weedkillers is likely to be decided at an EU Commission committee meeting next Thursday (9 November)...

 

The committee will be asked to vote on a proposal for a five-year approval, following the failure of the initial plan for a 10-year extension to gain sufficient support last week. The UK was among those who voted in favour of the longer term.

 

It was the second time in a month that the 28 member states had delayed a decision that needs to be taken before the current licence expires on 15 December this year.

 

Europe has been in a dither over glyphosate after the World Health Organization’s cancer agency concluded in March 2015 that it was “probably carcinogenic”.

The EU approved an 18-month extension in June 2016 to allow for further scientific study, which resulted in the European Chemical Agency concluding in March that there was no evidence to link glyphosate to cancer in humans.

 

The European Parliament last week called for glyphosate to be phased out over the next five years. They wanted an immediate ban on sales to consumers and its use in public spaces such as parks.

 

France, one of the countries opposing a 10-year approval, has said it would now be prepared to accept a four-year license extension.

 

Readers may be interested to hear what environmental health experts in New Zealand think about glyphosate. You can access a recent radio interview using this link:

 

 

The video produced by the My Garden Choice group may also help you to answer customer questions about the safety of glyphosate. Click here to access the site.

 

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