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Mexican pres reportedly bans glyphosate in government projects
The president of Mexico reportedly said this week that the Mexican government would immediately stop using glyphosate on its own projects.
According to Reuters, President Lopez Obrador told reporters glyphosate cannot be banned immediately for Mexican farmers because it would hit food output.
In late June, Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources announced there would be a phase-out of glyphosate over the next four years and it will be banned by the end of 2024. The department says it is analyzing alternatives for glyphosate saying the product has human health and environmental risks.
Mexico appears to support the UN report in 2015 that glyphosate is “probably” carcinogenic.
