Ref. Ares(2017)2139745 - 26/04/2017
To: Mr. Vytenis Andriukaitis
European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
European Commission
B-1049 Brussels.
xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Brussels, April 7, 2015
Concerning : The inclusion of the pesticides Glyphosate and Malathion in the positive list of Regulation
1107/2009.
Dear Commissioner Andriukaitis,
The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency IARC has declared the pesticide Glyphosate and
Malathion a “probable human carcinogen”. The IARC reached its decision recently based on the view
of 17 experts from 11 countries, who met in Lyon, France, to assess the carcinogenicity of 5
organophosphate pesticides. The IARC’s assessment of the 5 pesticides in its entirety will be published
as volume 112 of the IARC Monographs, an overview is already available and is published in the latest
issue of The Lancet Oncology (the article is attached to this letter).
We think this important scientific opinion must have an immediate impact on the current inclusion of
the pesticide Glyphosate in the positive list of Regulation 1107/2009 as well as on the regulatory
procedure for the application for a re-approval of the substance that is ongoing. We specifically ask you
to review the approval of Glyphosate and mandate Food Authority EFSA to include the IARC decision
in the peer-review that is undertaken by EFSA and use all information such as the 16 epidemiology
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