Over 50 agriculture industry groups have submitted a letter to President Joe Biden, calling for the withdrawal of a brief advising the Supreme Court of the United States against taking up a case regarding pesticide labels.
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar submitted a brief to the court that argued federal pesticide registration and labeling requirements do not preclude states from imposing additional labeling requirements, even if those requirements run counter to federal findings, according to the letter.
“The solicitor general’s brief adopts a position that permits states to mislabel glyphosate—or any pesticide—with cancer warnings despite overwhelming scientific evidence that it does not pose a cancer risk,” the letter read.
The groups continued that this reversal in position decreases access for farmers and other users to tools that produce food, fiber and fuel, and it threatens science-based regulation and trade.
