Located in Parma, Italy, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently released an assessment  said that in the world the most common a kind of herbicide, glyphosate and unlikely to increase the risk of cancer. This  may be the next to the European Union to approve the decision to continue the use of glyphosate, glyphosate is widely used in some of the active ingredients of herbicides. The term of use of the chemical substances shall be as of the end of 2015.

The  was first set up on the so-called "acute reference dose" of the chemical substance, the limit of the amount of an additive in the food. The  also notes that there is currently no sufficient evidence to determine whether the existence of commercially available glyphosate formulations that can be obtained with other ingredients.