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Monsanto on Defense in Dual Ninth Circuit Hearings
Sep. 3, 2018
Monsanto products factored in two appeals heard Wednesday by a Ninth Circuit panel reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a dicamba-based herbicide and possible government complicity in PCB contamination of state waterways.
National Family Farm Coalition asked the panel to review the EPA’s conditional 2016 approval of Monsanto’s dicamba-based Xtendimax, and the agency’s renewal of the registration in 2017.
George Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety represented the coalition. He said the EPA failed to properly study the chemical before approving it in 2016, and did not look at subsequent studies before renewal in 2017.
Kimbrell said studies of dicamba before the 2016 approval involved only two fields and were conducted by Monsanto scientists.
When the conditional approval was extended in 2017, the EPA again relied on the studies and failed to review data from states that had claimed to have suffered crop damage and contamination, Kimbrell said.
Source: Courthouse News Service
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