Environmental

Global Health Experts Say Glyphosate ‘Probably Carcinogenic’ to Humans, Raising Significant Concerns About Widely Used Herbicide

Finding highlights risks of “pesticide treadmill” created by GE crops

Oakland, CA—(ENEWSPF)—March 23, 2015. On March 20th, a scientific working group consisting of seventeen experts from eleven countries released their evaluation of the herbicide glyphosate and four organophosphate insecticides for the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The group classified Monsanto’s glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the world, as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”    

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