Syngenta Crop Protection Loses Bid to Delist Herbicides as Toxic

Syngenta Crop Protection LLC lost a bid to delist a group of chemicals used as herbicides as toxic under California’s Prop. 65.

To support a listing of a chemical, the state doesn’t need to find it’s a reproductive toxicant to humans, the California Court of Appeals said Sept. 10 in an unpublished decision.

It’s sufficient if the state finds, as it did here, that the chemical causes reproductive toxicity in animals, the court said.

The company sought to undo the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s August 2015 listing of triazines, including atrazine, propazine, and simazine.

Syngenta, by failing to ...