The European Parliament is planning to set up a committee to investigate the regulatory process that led the EU to reapprove the use of the herbicide glyphosate.
The committee has been backed by the Parliament’s leaders, and now needs to be approved by MEPs in a vote in February, the Socialists and Democrats group of MEPs announced on 18 January.
According to the S&D group, the committee will investigate “the scandal of the Monsanto papers and how the pesticide company tried to influence EU legislation”. Monsanto is a company based in the United States that manufactures a widely used herbicide that contains glyphosate. Internal documents show that the company has considered using unethical practices such as ghostwriting to influence the academic and regulatory discourse around glyphosate’s safety.
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