A lot has been said about a recent court case ruling about Monsanto’s Roundup ….. Adding to the mix, in New Zealand the Associate Environment Minister, Eugenie Sage, has said she will ask the [country’s environmental protection agency] to consider declaring Monsanto’s weed-killer, Roundup, hazardous.
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[Eugenie Sage’s] call to revise the status of Roundup looks to be a political exercise. In my opinion it would be fruitless, and time-wasting. She’d want to first show that the court case introduces new safety evidence. My understanding (so far) is that it doesn’t.Editor’s note: The jury verdict on glyphosate was based primarily on IARC’s 2015 monograph, which called the herbicide a “probable carcinogen.”
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IARC reports possible hazards: things that in some setting, in some amount, in some way might cause cancer. Something maybe a hazard, but no risk if you are not exposed to the substance. Similarly, there may be no risk if the dose is small …. IARC gives a heads-up as to what substances ‘might’ be hazards. It is for regulatory bodies to take this and decide where risks—if any—might lie, and how [to] manage this.
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The NZ EPA has already reviewed IARC’s report on their own initiative in 2016 …. This would suggest there is nothing further to be done.
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