The World Health Organization’s cancer agency is firmly defending its finding that a widely used herbicide is “probably carcinogenic” despite reports cited by key House lawmakers.
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[Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici] entered into the hearing record a series of responses IARC Director Christopher Wild has sent to the panel in recent months.Wild specifically criticized two stories from Reuters reporter Kate Kelland that suggested the evaluation, known as a monograph, excluded key information.
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One claimed that Aaron Blair, a U.S. National Cancer Institute epidemiologist who led the glyphosate review, excluded from the assessment forthcoming research that he knew would find no link between the herbicide and cancer.
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That was because “IARC Monographs are based on independent scientific review of published and not on the basis of unpublished or ‘secret data’ unavailable publicly,” Wild explained in a Nov. 20, 2017, letter.
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The other story from last year flagged by Science Committee leaders claimed that IARC omitted evidence that went against its conclusion that glyphosate likely causes cancer in humans and edited a draft review significantly before it was released to the public.
But most of the differences between that draft and the final monograph “specifically relate to a review article” that litigation against Monsanto Co., which uses glyphosate in its popular Roundup herbicides, revealed was ghostwritten by the company, Wild said.
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