A LONG-RUNNING campaign to secure the re-authorisation of a herbicide described by farmers as ‘essential’ has borne fruit.
The product, glyphosate, has been approved by the appeals committee in Brussels for a further five years.
National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) said it had been a ‘hugely frustrating process, which saw politics rather than scientific evidence delay decisions on a product that had been deemed safe by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Chemicals Agency among others’. The union believes re-authorisation for five years was justifi- able.