What is the Codex position on Glyphosate?

Glyphosate is the world’s most used herbicide and a common weed killer in agriculture and home gardening. In March 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) working group of experts classified Glyphosate in Group 2A (probable human carcinogens) with strong evidence for a genotoxic mechanism of carcinogenicity. The Joint WHO/FAO Expert Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), which is responsible for assessing the risk of pesticide residues in Food in Codex, originally evaluated Glyphosate in 2004. JMPR did not find evidence for carcinogenicity in humans and assigned an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI). On that basis, the Codex Alimentarius Commission has established Maximum Residue Limits for Glyphosate in a large number of food crops (2006-2014).