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More than a million EU citizens signed a petition calling for a ban on glyphosate. (Photo: GLOBAL 2000/ Christopher Glanzl)

Health MEPs want to phase out glyphosate by 2020

Members of the European Parliament's environment and health committee adopted a text on Thursday (19 October), calling on the European Commission to withdraw its proposal to renew the license for glyphosate for a period of ten years.

The text was adopted with 39 votes in favour, nine against, and ten abstentions.

They said that the commission's proposal failed "to ...

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