On September 7, 2017, the European Food Safety Authority ("EFSA") published its conclusions on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the potential endocrine-disrupting properties of glyphosate. Glyphosate's representative uses are spraying applications against emerged annual, perennial, and biennial weeds in all crops (crops including but not restricted to root and tuber vegetables, bulb vegetables, stem vegetables, field vegetables (fruiting vegetables, brassica vegetables, leaf vegetables, and fresh herbs, legume vegetables), pulses, oil seeds, potatoes, cereals, and sugar beets and fodder beets; orchard crops and vine, before planting fruit crops, ornamentals, trees, nursery plants, etc.) and foliar spraying for desiccation in cereals and oil seeds (pre-harvest). In accordance with a request by the EC, EFSA has conducted a peer review of the initial pesticide risk assessment of glyphosate carried out in 2015 by the rapporteur Member State, Germany, with the aim of considering the potential endocrine activity of the pesticide glyphosate. EFSA concludes that: "the weight of evidence indicates that glyphosate does not have endocrine disrupting properties through oestrogen, androgen, thyroid or steroidogenesis mode of action based on a comprehensive database available in the toxicology area. The available ecotox studies did not contradict this conclusion." In its conclusions, EFSA notes that no outstanding issues remain on this topic and that no critical areas of concern were identified in the context of the peer review.
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