{"id":30891,"date":"2019-09-17T07:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=30891"},"modified":"2019-09-18T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:46:30","slug":"germany-to-ban-glyphosate-from-end-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2019\/09\/germany-to-ban-glyphosate-from-end-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany To Ban Glyphosate From End Of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The German government has agreed to ban use of the weedkiller glyphosate from the end of 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>COMMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Germany\u2019s planned prohibition on the use of glyphosate follows a similar announcement by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2019\/07\/austria-becomes-first-european-country-to-ban-glyphosate-weedkiller\/\">Austria<\/a>, which recently became the first European country to implement a nationwide ban on the toxic weedkiller. Other countries in Europe are also now moving in this direction. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/agriculture-food\/news\/french-mayors-ban-glyphosate-weedkiller-defying-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a>, around 20 mayors have banned the chemical from their municipalities, while in the Czech Republic the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.expats.cz\/weekly-czech-news\/prague-city-hall-moves-to-ban-roundup-in-parks-and-public-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prague<\/a> is similarly in the process of banning it.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting bans on glyphosate are putting increased pressure on German pharma-chemical company Bayer, whose disastrous $63 billion takeover of Monsanto in 2018 has led to it becoming the object of lawsuits from patients who say they developed cancer as a result of exposure to Roundup, Monsanto\u2019s glyphosate-containing weedkiller.<\/p>\n<p>Having already lost 3 glyphosate-related lawsuits that awarded multimillion-dollar payouts to the patients concerned, Bayer\u2019s share price has plummeted. The company now faces around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190730-bayer-says-now-targeted-18400-glyphosate-cases-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18,400<\/a> similar lawsuits from patients across the United States, as well as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2019\/06\/first-cancer-lawsuit-over-roundup-weedkiller-filed-in-australia\/\">first case<\/a>\u00a0filed against it in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>To read about research carried out by scientists at the Dr. Rath Research Institute into the damaging effects of glyphosate, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2019\/07\/the-cell-damaging-effects-of-roundup-glyphosate-herbicides\/\">this article<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n<a class=\"button  button_left button_size_2 button_js\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-set-to-ban-glyphosate-from-end-of-2023\/a-50282891\" target=\"_blank\"    ><span class=\"button_icon\"><i class=\"icon-right-open-big\" ><\/i><\/span><span class=\"button_label\">Read article on the Deutsche Welle website (Germany)<\/span><\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German government has agreed to ban use of the weedkiller glyphosate from the end of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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