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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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IARC assessment of glyphosate only served to confuse policy makers, public
On March 20, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) labeled glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide in the world, ...
Talking Biotech: University of Florida’s Kevin Folta on fear-mongering claims of glyphosate-in-vaccines, food
University of Florida's Kevin Folta refutes fear-mongering claims of glyphosate in vaccines and food ...
Glyphosate found in US honey
The Food and Drug Administration, under public pressure to start testing samples of U.S. food for the presence of a ...
Delayed by IARC designation, EPA glyphosate reassessment punted to next administration
For anyone who thought EPA’s glyphosate risk assessment would arrive sometime soon, think again. The new target is for the ...
Farmers struggling to counter activist demonization of safe herbicide glyphosate
Is agriculture reacting to the GMO debate when we should be focusing on protecting glyphosate? These are questions we need ...
Members of Congress want answers on EPA’s delayed evaluation of glyphosate
When Congress reconvenes [in September], lawmakers will continue to press the Environmental Protection Agency about why it’s withholding their report ...
How should we evaluate impact of substituting glyphosate for more toxic herbicides?
A new paper was just published in the journal Science Advances that analyzes pesticide use data for farmers in the U.S. . . The authors['s] ...
Europe’s battle over glyphosate ‘was never about science’
André Heitz is an agronomist and a former international civil servant for the United Nations. . . . [T]he European Commission ...
Environmental Protection Agency in New Zealand finds ‘no glyphosate-cancer link’, rebukes WHO’s IARC
A new report on glyphosate [patented originally under the trade name Roundup], commissioned by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), says ...
WHO IARC reviewer reiterates no health concerns for glyphosate safe ‘if used as directed’
A leading Canadian public health official has commended New Brunswick's review of a controversial herbicide . . . Dr. John McLaughlin, ...
Internal conflict in French government affecting EU policy on glyphosate, other agrochemicals
A duel in the . . . French government is shaking up Europe’s food and farming sector, turning the Continent’s political ...
Is campaign against glyphosate using misinformation to spread message?
. . . [W]hen did it become totally acceptable for groups who oppose anything . . . to routinely spread spurious information ...
War in Europe—Battle over glyphosate
The battle over glyphosate rages on in Europe, creating a lot of question marks over whether the popular herbicide will ...
New Zealand’s EPA finds glyphosate ‘unlikely to be carcinogenic’
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) commissioned Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist and former Director of the New Zealand National Poisons ...
EU’s new glyphosate restrictions enforced differently throughout Europe
Glyphosate use in parks and public spaces in the UK is likely to be little affected by a recent EU ...
Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...
Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
German farmers plant ‘chemical-free’ demonstration plots to educate public about glyphosate
Glyphosate. . . is heavily used by farmers to clear fields of weeds . . . In 2015, a report found the ...
EPA to hold October public meeting on its evaluation of glyphosate
There will be a 4-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) to ...
EPA criticized for ignoring its own scientists’ findings that glyphosate isn’t carcinogenic
. . . . Following the EPA’s notice in the Federal Register that it was seeking nominations for an expert panel ...
Glyphosate found in 100% of wines tested in California–Reason for concern?
Just because we can now discover trace levels of a pesticide like glyphosate doesn't mean those levels are toxic ...
Did France ignore its farmer’s needs when voting against renewal of glyphosate’s license?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
When Colombia ended aerial spraying of glyphosate, cultivation of cocaine crop surged
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After six straight years ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-resistant GMO grass utilizes less fertilizers, grows twice as fast
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists inside Scotts Miracle-Gro ...
Facing deadline, farmer backlash, EU reauthorizes herbicide glyphosate for 18 months
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Commission is ...
By excluding industry’s glyphosate studies, IARC dismisses most relevant research says critic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A little more than ...
‘Internet democracy’ results in calls for unscientific glyphosate ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
