Bayer Response Regarding Texas Attorney General Statements

• There were a series of inaccurate and misleading claims made in the statements from the Texas Attorney General’s office around the use and safety of glyphosate-based products. We have been working with their office on this inquiry and will continue to provide relevant information to clarify the facts.
• In the meantime, consumers should have confidence that the food we eat is safe. In order to protect human health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an extremely rigorous review process which sets tolerances for the maximum limit for pesticide residues – or trace amounts of any pesticide that may remain on harvested crops. These daily exposure limits are set at least 100 times below levels shown to have no negative health effect in safety studies.

Additional Background

• Let’s be clear: Bayer glyphosate products are not labeled for wheat desiccation, references to such uses are inaccurate. Bayer glyphosate products are labeled, and approved by EPA, for pre-harvest weed control, and the products must be applied no more than seven days before harvest and when the crop is under specific conditions. When present in fields at harvest, weeds will damage equipment, reduce grain quality and slow operations.
• Pre-harvest weed control and crop desiccation are not the same thing; however, the public has confused these terms due to the timing of these types of applications late in the growing season. This can be addressed by fully understanding the U.S. EPA labeled uses for glyphosate.
• It is used carefully and sparingly, under guidelines designed to keep residues far below established human safety thresholds.