Chemicals & Pesticides
Pesticides are substances that prevent, destroy, repel, or reduce the severity of pests. Pests are living things that occur where they are not wanted or that cause damage to humans, crops, or animals. Pests can be insects, rodents, unwanted plants, bacteria, viruses, or different types of fungus. Pesticides can vary in how toxic they are to humans and the environment. Some are persistent in the environment, animals, and birds, lasting for years; others break down soon after they are released. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants licenses, or registrations, to pesticides that it has found do not pose unreasonable risks to human health and the environment; it has registered at least 865 pesticides, which are used in thousands of pesticide products.
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Contradicting IARC, World Health Organization says glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer

U.S. lawmakers question EPA’s handling of glyphosate review

How does popular organic pesticide copper sulfate compare to synthetic ones like glyphosate?

Glyphosate may become target of massive lawsuits
Moms Across America launches anti-GMO, anti-glyphosate billboard campaign
Ronald Bailey: Legal vultures use activist claims about glyphosate for ‘bogus’ Quaker Oats lawsuit

EPA posts, takes offline ‘final’ report concluding glyphosate ‘not likely carcinogenic’
Will World Health Organization force review of IARC’s glyphosate cancer determination?
Can’t have it both ways: European consumers want affordable food without glyphosate

Lawsuit: Quaker Oat’s ‘100% Natural’ claim false because of glyphosate traces

City uses vinegar instead of glyphosate for weed control, odor proves problematic
Glyphosate findings spark ‘war of words’ between WHO, European agencies

Cornell researchers find glyphosate herbicide unlikely source of Monarch butterfly decline

European commission plans to relicense glyphosate for 10 years according to leaked proposal

Glyphosate residues, most at safe levels, found in breakfast foods, including organic products

Glyphosate battles: Why different European agencies came to different cancer conclusions
Euractiv science blogger says he was censored for his views on glyphosate, IARC

European Parliment votes in favor of reauthorizing glyphosate but limits approval for 7 years
UK farmers worry that deauthorization of glyphosate could impact cereal crop production

Multiple studies, with and without conflicts of interest, find no glyphosate in breast milk

Talking Biotech: Shelley McGuire, lactation specialist: No glyphosate in breast milk; Glyphosate in wine?

Despite activists’ claims about glyphosate dangers, there’s no cancer spike in Argentina

Using gene editing, scientists develop glyphosate resistant flax plant

Downside trade-offs of reducing glyphosate use

Talking Biotech: Amy Iezzoni talks tart cherry genetic origins; Kevin Folta answers glyphosate questions in German beer scare
