yes, the companies producing it tried getting it approved, and it was for a bit ...

JumpCrisscross · 2025-12-15T15:28:39 1765812519

> then the approval was overturned as the evidence was crap

Source? I’m curious for this context.

cess11 · 2025-12-15T15:38:56 1765813136

I think they might refer to the EU approving of paraquat, which was appealed by Sweden and other countries and it was a legal process churning on until 2007 when the presumed link with Parkinson's and other factors led to the decision to ban it.

JumpCrisscross · 2025-12-15T16:16:54 1765815414

> when the presumed link with Parkinson's and other factors led to the decision to ban it

Do you have a link to this decision? I'm having trouble finding it on my own.

cess11 · 2025-12-15T21:33:02 1765834382

First instance:

https://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp07/aff/cp07004...

ECJ:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...