Schieder pleased with glyphosate judgment: „the interests of the people must always be about the interests of the corporations“

Government not required to wait for confirmation by glyphosate-studies, but environmental toxin to ban immediately

Vienna (OTS/SK) – welcoming the decision in principle by the ECJ, as a result, the interest of the Public in access to information to environmental toxins over the interests of large corporations, today, Thursday, the leading candidate of the SPÖ to the European elections, Andreas Schieder. „The court judgment is in the fight for the ban of glyphosate, a significant step, because all of the held studies on the carcinogenic effect of the Umweltgifts to finally be released,“ said Schieder. „The interests of the people and the concern for your health is always more important than the pure business interests of agricultural companies and pharmaceutical giants such as Monsanto and co.,“ says Schieder, which calls again for an immediate total ban of glyphosate. ****

It is important, according to Schieder, as well as the judgment of the court of justice of the EU does not stick to know only what is released into the environment, but also to make visible the way in which people and animals can be endangered by the emissions. „Non-transparent authorisation procedure as that in the case of glyphosate need to be a thing of the past,“ says Schieder, because it is not „that health hazards can be easily hushed up“. The International cancer has classified research center glyphosate have long been considered potentially carcinogenic, is for Schieder once more is reason enough to repeat his claim to the black-blue government, for a Europe-wide total ban of glyphosate: „can’t you Wait for confirmation of the results, but you need to act immediately! The protection of the Austrian population from dangerous environmental toxins and not the profit interests of large corporations must always have the highest priority,“ said Schieder. (Final) ls/mr

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