The U.S. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court recently affirmed a district court permanent injunction prohibiting California’s Proposition 65 warning requirement related to glyphosate.
Proposition 65 is a right‑to-know law that is intended to enable Californians to make informed choices about exposures to chemicals that cause cancer or reproductive effects. The proposition did not ban the use of glyphosate in the state. California attempted to apply Proposition 65 to glyphosate in 2017 following the 2015 ruling by the International Agency for Research on Cancer that glyphosate is an animal carcinogen and a probable human carcinogen.
The National Association of Wheat Growers welcomed the court’s response of a permanent injunction. NAWG President Brent Cheyne says, “California’s Proposition 65 requirement threatened the use of glyphosate by requiring false and misleading labels on products that may contain glyphosate.”
NAWG was joined by 11 other agriculture organizations in the case, including CropLife America and the National Corn Growers Association.
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