Monsanto is taking legal action to prevent what the company calls a flawed listing of the herbicide glyphosate under California’s Proposition 65.
Prop 65 requires the state to maintain a “list of chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.”
The listing of glyphosate, according to Monsanto, would be flawed and baseless because glyphosate does not cause cancer, as determined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Food Safety Authority and pesticide regulators around the world.
Monsanto claims the listing would violate the California and U.S. Constitutions because the state would be ceding the basis of its regulatory authority to an unelected and non-transparent foreign body that is not under the oversight or control of any federal or state government entity.
Monsanto filed the suit against the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Thursday in California’s Fresno Superior Court.
