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The European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission

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We urge you to enable real transparency in EU food safety decisions by publishing the data received from industry to evaluate the toxicity of their products in full, as soon as the EU receives it, before the products are put on the EU market. This much-needed transparency will finally allow for independent scientific scrutiny of crucial public decisions, putting an end to a secrecy that has allowed dangerous products to stay on the market and has fuelled public mistrust in food safety decisions.

Why is this important?

The European Parliament, Commission, and Council are meeting to negotiate the final proposal that could result in the toxic weedkiller glyphosate becoming banned in the EU, by making previously-secret industry studies available to the public. [1]

During our struggle to ban glyphosate last year, scientific studies were key. The pesticide industry said it had studies demonstrating that glyphosate was "safe” - but kept them secret from citizens and independent scientists alike. The EU allowed the use of glyphosate for another five years - on the basis of these secret industry studies. [2]

Just in December the European Parliament voted for strong legislation that would end this kind of secrecy. Industry players had been lobbying our MEPs hard to derail the proposal. Now it’s time for the EU institutions to negotiate for a final agreement: If all of us join the call, we can still tip the scale in safety’s favour.

The proposed change to the General Food Law regulation is an ambitious departure from the industry-favoured procedures that currently exist in the EU. If this legislation passes, we’ll finally have the tools to challenge the likes of Bayer/Monsanto when glyphosate and other dangerous chemicals come up for approval in the EU.

The next EU decision on glyphosate is coming up fast. If we win this legislation, we can get the EU to publish the safety tests that Monsanto – now Bayer – will submit this year in order to get the EU’s green light for glyphosate. Once we have these tests, we can hire the best independent scientists to analyse them! If we want to stop glyphosate for good, we need to see the studies that industry wants to keep secret.

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References:

http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/successful/details/follow-up/2017/000002/en?lg=en https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONSIL:ST_8518_2018_INIT&from=EN
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/documents/3496/DS_Annex.pdf
https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/civil-society-questions-europes-perfect-pesticide-authorisation-system/

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Anne Martine

AJB! Voor we er allemaal aan gaan!

Victor

Large corporations often behave immoral for financial gain and the EU should protect us from that

charlotte

Daughter of 2 was glyphosate poisoned by living near corn fields.

geneviève

we want a good and safety food for us and our children

Stuart

Michael Gove, the British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has given Sainsbury the go ahead to grow GMO potatoes in UK. Professor Jonathan Jones is head of Sainsburys laboratory used to work for Monsanto a clear conflict of interest. We must stop this now.

Nadine

People not policies! The spires are falling... The old order is disintegrating before our very eyes.

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It is very important

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We urge you to enable real transparency in EU food safety decisions by publishing the data received from industry to evaluate the toxicity of their products in full, as soon as the EU receives it, before the products are put on the EU market. This much-needed transparency will finally allow for independent scientific scrutiny of crucial public decisions, putting an end to a secrecy that has allowed dangerous products to stay on the market and has fuelled public mistrust in food safety decisions.

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I want to be eating healthy food that doesn't contain chemical substances highly damaging to the ecosystems and to our bodies.

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We need to change our production system

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I support life on Earth

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People should know what they eat and what Kind of toxicity gets into their Body and of their Kids. So everybody can decides for themselves not Industry or Money market!!!!

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Je signe pour l'agriculture propre sans tout c'est produit chimique qui nous tuer et détruit la planète

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On nous empoisonne délibérément.

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Stop poisoning everyone

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The most important is the protection of organic farming and small farms. Corporations introducing food, medicines and processed cosmetics must write about the positive and negative effects of the use. They should be responsible for the problems of using the products even if the symptoms are present in subsequent generations.

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L'agriculture intensive nous fera mourir .

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Parce qu'alerter sur des pratiques illégales ou contraires au bien public est un droit fondamental.

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it is important for me because with a clean agriculture we can save the planet and people we should know what we eat

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If these companies and institutions do not share this information openly, I have to assume it is because they know they are harming us and putting profit before people and the environment.

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Food is at the crossroad of several human rights, that's why I need to sign this petition!

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I am writing as a concerned European citizen, urging you to vote for strong rules to end the secrecy around industry studies used to back up claims that pesticides, GMOs, food contact materials and other products related to our food are safe. Since December more than 169,000 Europeans and counting have signed a petition calling on all food safety studies to be public.

The European Parliament’s position could enable exactly this, and the trilogue negotiations will determine whether citizens can trust Europe's food safety regime in future. Many amendments tabled by Parliament contribute to a future with real transparency in our food system. However, there were also proposals that could render this law - and its benefits to the public - meaningless.

The debate about glyphosate has shown that a favourable opinion from the EU's food safety authority, EFSA, is insufficient to reassure citizens, so long as EFSA's opinion is based on secret industry studies.

More than a million European citizens like myself have called on the European Commission to ensure that all studies used to back up regulatory approval of pesticides are published. We don't think it is right that the scientific assessment of potential impacts of pesticides and other products should be a private affair between EU scientists and the manufacturers, preventing any meaningful scrutiny by other scientists.

Specifically, I call on you to ensure that existing rights of citizens to access information upon request are not undermined, that all safety-relevant information is published, and that the possible reasons for confidential treatment are clearly limited. In addition, studies should be published as soon as submitted to allow for meaningful consultation during the evaluation process.

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