Reason | By David Bernstein
To say that these verdicts are not justified by the scientific evidence would be a massive understatement. Every regulatory body in the world that has studied Roundup has declared that it’s safe and that it’s unlikely that it’s a carcinogen.
Legal Newsline | By Daniel Fisher
On April 30, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, to be safe. Less than two weeks later, a California jury ordered Bayer AG to pay $2 billion to a couple who blamed their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on Roundup.
Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung
If used properly and for its intended purpose, glyphosate is not carcinogenic. This was the conclusion arrived at by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and numerous other national and international authorities.
Bayer released the following statement regarding the release of a draft toxicological profile for glyphosate by the Agency for Toxic Substances and and Disease Registry (ATSDR). “We welcome this scientific review of glyphosate, the active ingredient in many of our Roundup-branded products. It is important to recognize that this is a review of the existing […]
The Wall Street Journal | By Arthur W. Lambert
For glyphosate, the scientific evidence is decidedly mixed. A direct link to cancer is still debatable, but even if one accepts the high end of the reported risks the effects are, at best, modest.
The Wall Street Journal | By The Editorial Board
After the WHO agency’s determination, the Environmental Protection Agency convened its own panel to review glyphosate. The scientists conducted a “comprehensive systematic review of studies submitted to the agency and available in the open literature,” the EPA’s director of the Office of Pesticide Programs, Richard Keigwin, wrote last year. They concluded “glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic in humans.”
Lifehacker | By Beth Skwarecki
This week a jury found that a man’s use of Roundup on weeds in his yard was a “substantial factor” in causing the cancer that he developed years later. But court cases are not scientific studies, and scientists are still divided on whether glyphosate should really be considered a carcinogen.
Science20 | By Geoffrey Kabat
A new analysis, which appeared in the journal Mutation Research, claims to show evidence linking exposure to the common weedkiller glyphosate to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), a rare form of cancer, but it provides no new data and is not what it presents itself to be.
Forbes | By Steven Salzberg
(Quick answer: probably not. See my update at the bottom of this post.) For many years, environmental activists have been concerned about the herbicide glyphosate, which is the main ingredient in RoundUp®, the world’s most widely-used weed killer.
Bayer provided the following response to a new meta-analysis by Zhang L, Rana I, Taioli E, Shaffer RM, Sheppard L, a copy of which has been pre-published online. This meta-analysis, which is a statistical combination of data collected by other studies, includes select data from the most recent update of the Agricultural Health Study (AHS) […]