Skip to main content

Glyphosate

Volume 570: debated on Monday 18 March 1996

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have any reports of suspected adverse reactions to glyphosate either on its own or in combination with other chemicals.

Incidents where ill health is alleged to have been caused by exposure to pesticides, including those containing glyphosate, should be notified to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In the past five years HSE investigated 25 such incidents, affecting 36 people, in which glyphosate was one of the active ingredients. For two of these incidents, affecting three people, HSE's Pesticide Incidents Appraisal Panel assessed that the reported pesticide exposure was likely to be the cause of the reported ill health.