The President of the University of California, USA, has banned the use of glyphosate-based pesticides on his campus, where 200,000 students study, due to concerns about their health.

The decision of the university’s leadership is based on concerns “about possible dangers to human health and the environment, as well as potential legal and reputational risks associated with this category of herbicides”.

Glyphosate is an active ingredient in Monsanto Roundup and Ranger weed killer products, as well as in more than seven hundred other herbicides. Herbicide Glyphosate and its producer Monsanto were the subject of proceedings in three court cases, ending with the fact that the plaintiffs were granted victim status with compensation to them totaling more than two billion US dollars.

The decision of the school’s management to ban the use of glyphosate was followed by the Herbicide-Free UC social movement unfolding on the campuses of the University of California.

Activists of the movement stated that they are completely satisfied with the decision of the leadership of the educational institution to ban the use of glyphosate without waiting for the results of any additional studies.