Advocacy group No More Glyphosate NZ says major scientific and regulatory questions remain unresolved despite the withdrawal of a Court of Appeal challenge against the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) over glyphosate reassessment in New Zealand.
The legal action, brought by the Environmental Law Initiative, challenged the EPA’s handling of glyphosate reassessment processes. However, campaigners argue the court case focused on whether the EPA followed lawful procedures, rather than determining whether glyphosate itself is safe or unsafe.
No More Glyphosate NZ said concerns remained over whether glyphosate-based herbicides had ever undergone a full modern reassessment in New Zealand. The group also pointed to differences between glyphosate as a chemical compound and commercial products such as Roundup, arguing formulation ingredients and co-formulants required closer scrutiny.
The organisation further highlighted the recent retraction of a scientific paper previously cited in support of glyphosate safety assessments, alongside growing concerns about herbicide resistance developing in farming systems.
The EPA has previously maintained that glyphosate remains approved for use in New Zealand under existing regulatory controls.
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So thankful that someone is still pressing against the legislation here in nz although I have my doubts about how much can truly change with the shills “in charge”
It’s really starting to sink in, we (on our small island home) seemingly cannot escape the poisoning being imposed on us and the laws that change and adapt to the day, to suit whom ever makes the profit, wether here or overseas.
What will we be as a population by the time they spray/drop 1080 and trichoplyr over our native bush, spray glyphosate on every street, roadside, drainage and wheat potato and other crops, keep introducing gmo food/tech unannounced, neither regulated or labelled on our food, spray us with chem trails on top of that and import from countries where our gmo laws don’t quite reach (yet).
.India has experienced this already, although a much bigger country and population and now we are in big business with them, continuing and further implementing food/farming and tech.
Haven’t been to the airport in a while but I hope they don’t have those big billboards up saying how clean and green our country is. What a fucking farce that is.
Hard to snap out of doom and gloom mindset when the sheep still sleep and the system keeps feeding itself off our backs.
Zero safety from the globalists fake watchdog organisations…….as for the corrupt courts, do’t waste your time!