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From: Heidi Hautala, Benedek Javor, Michele Rivasi and Bart Staes

March 15, 2016

Dear Bernhard Url, Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as

enshrined in Regulation 1049/2001 and in the Aarhus Regulation, we are requesting documents which contain the following information:

There is an alarming scientific controversy between the European

Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organisation (IARC) with regard to the carcinogenicity of glyphosate. In March 2015, IARC concluded that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen (category 2A) . However, later that same year, in November 2015, EFSA concluded that glyphosate is "unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans and the evidence does not support classification with regard to its carcinogenic potential".