The Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and several farmworker advocacy groups are pushing the EPA to cancel glyphosate's registration in light of a federal court decision that found fault with the agency's human health assessment. The organizations filed an administrative petition with the agency Wednesday arguing the registration is illegal.

 

According to the petition, “as things now stand, EPA’s human health assessment of glyphosate has been held unlawful and set aside, and the remainder of the [interim registration review decision] has been withdrawn.”

 

That leaves glyphosate’s current registrations relying on the 1993 Reregistration Eligibility Decision, which is “based on a risk assessment conducted 30 years ago that fails to account for the 10-fold increase in use driven largely by over-the-top applications of glyphosate to crops genetically engineered to resist it,” the petition says.