A disturbing analysis of how the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) managed to infiltrate and influence EFSA (European Food Safety Agency) and a wide range of other international regulatory bodies concerned with pesticides, chemicals, food safety and drug safety. ILSI goes to great lengths to present itself as a non-lobbying group, but it is quite clear from its membership, actions and funding sources that it is an extremely focused lobbying group. ILSI is funded by Monsanto, Croplife, Bayer, BASF, Coca Cola, Big Tobacco and a host of other chemical and pesticide corporations.
The recent European debacle over the relicensing of glyphosate was covered in detail in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/17/unwho-panel-in-confl…
The UN’s panel on pesticide regulation gave Glyphosate the ‘all clear’, intervening just days before the European Union was due to take its final vote. This was a targeted and timed intervention, designed to push the license through and give Monsanto another decade of profits in Europe. It then transpired that two leading members of the UN panel, Professor Alan Boobis and Professor Angelo Moretto were both Board Members of ILSI, which had received around $800,000 from Monsanto and Croplife in the current year. ILSI lobbies on everything from Tobacco policies, food and obesity policies and Pesticide Risk Assessment policies.
Source: CEO, May 2012
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