Weedkilling A Large Area of Gravel

Davesnave

Yes, glyphosate is easily as carcinogenic as bacon sarnies, a barbecued chicken leg, or sitting out in the sun....

How is Roundup 'toxic' when it doesn't persist in the soil or in water in its original form, whereas sodium chlorate does?

And without wanting to seem pedantic, wasn't the main reason for banning sodium chlorate because it was a contributor to gases which caused holes in the ozone layer?

Either way, some of us saw the ban coming, so we still have stocks of this weedkiller, but from a personal perspective I haven't found much use for mine in recent years. Maybe the odd deep rooted blackberry that refuses to die and a few species that are glyphosate-tolerant....

snowcat75

It was banned as part of the ongoing reclassification of products looking at risk, There have been 100rds of actives removed from approval over the last ten years just most of them were never available to jo public, Sodium chlorate can be highly damaging to the aquatic environment. If it was considered a professional product and operator exposure was also a risk then it would have been banned a decade ago.


Large company's like Monsanto don't have to lobby governments to ban products for the small UK DIY market, that is part just imagination of the tin foil wearers that post stuff on the internet. Its even more absurd when you think Monsanto hasn't owned the patent on Glyphosate for decades, revival company's who copy Monsanto's original design effect and price drive there product far more.

Reclassification (MAPP no.s) and reformulation of products is hugely expensive and quite simply if a product is not being produced for a massive worldwide market for professional use then no company is going to pay a £1m+ to classify a product for a few thousand cans to garden centres.


Glyphosate is used over Millions of hectares on every continent growing commercial crops in the world, therefore to make a dilute formulation for non professional use is extremely cheep.

As for cacogenic Friends of the earth have been gunning against Glyphosate for almost as long as the product has been on the market, at best any links to cancer have been found to be sketchy, but as has been pointed out natural plants, foods and environmental factors have had FAR greater links proved and yet we still drink coffee and go out in the sun.