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Call for Stricter Regulations on Herbicides as Federal Testing for Glyphosate in Food Resumes

Barely two months after the federal government renewed testing for glyphosate in food, Connecticut is pushing for a strict ban on the herbicide.

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal told the New Haven Register that he’s “concerned with the growing body of evidence linking glyphosate to serious health problems, including cancer,” and supports “a limitation or ban on the use of glyphosate.”

August 14, 2017 | Source: Organic Authority | by Emily Monaco

Barely two months after the federal government renewed testing for glyphosate in food, Connecticut is pushing for a strict ban on the herbicide.

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal told the New Haven Register that he’s “concerned with the growing body of evidence linking glyphosate to serious health problems, including cancer,” and supports “a limitation or ban on the use of glyphosate.”

The state already attempted to restrict use of the herbicide in clearings along highways last winter, and while the bill won Environment Committee approval, it was not voted on by the end of the legislative session.

New York- and Connecticut-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment have criticized the inadequacy of current EPA restrictions on glyphosate in food. While the development of a streamlined testing method allowed the FDA to start testing for residues of glyphosate in food in February 2016, these analyses were halted in November “amid confusion, disagreement, and difficulties with establishing a standard methodology,” Carey Gillam reports for the Huffington Post.