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Should the outcome of the EU process be a renewed approval of glyphosate, there is a high risk that its legitimacy will be rejected by a large proportion of the European public (Photo: Aqua Mechanical)

What the EU public think of EU pesticide regulation

Glyphosate, the active substance in Bayer/Monsanto's Roundup and the world's most widely-used herbicide, was classified in 2015 as a "probable human carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), leading to large numbers of lawsuits and high damage awards to affected users in US courts.

In the EU, glyphosate's re-authorisatio...

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Jonathan Zeitlin is distinguished faculty professor of public policy and governance at the University of Amsterdam, and all contributors are the five authors of the report Reforming EU Pesticides Regulation, Rebuilding Public Support: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Six Member States from the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies.

Should the outcome of the EU process be a renewed approval of glyphosate, there is a high risk that its legitimacy will be rejected by a large proportion of the European public (Photo: Aqua Mechanical)

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Jonathan Zeitlin is distinguished faculty professor of public policy and governance at the University of Amsterdam, and all contributors are the five authors of the report Reforming EU Pesticides Regulation, Rebuilding Public Support: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Six Member States from the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies.

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