European Food Safety Authority will release glyphosate assessment data

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EFSA is to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate, saying the move is part of its commitment to open risk assessment.

However, the information is only being shared with a group of MEPs following a public access to document request.

“Some parts of the studies (submitted to EFSA) will remain masked. The masked parts relate to administrative details, with no scientific value and to the conclusions of the study authors. EFSA considers the parts that remain masked contain information that has a market value and that, if disclosed, would harm the commercial interests of the study owners,” an EFSA spokesperson told us.

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Greenpeace has claimed that EFSA partly based its risk assessment of glyphosate on confidential studies commissioned by glyphosate producers, while the IARC assessment was only based on publicly available scientific evidence.

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…EFSA said that, when combined with … background documents already published on EFSA’s website, the new information will be sufficient to enable a third-party scientist to scrutinise the [EFSA’s] evaluation of glyphosate…

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Bernhard Url, EFSA’s executive director, said the …risk assessor will continue to make data available … “while striking the balance between transparency and the legitimate interest of study owners.”

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Read full, original post: Glyphosate opinion: EFSA says new data disclosure allows closer scrutiny

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