Glyphosate
Swiss parliament: No scientific justification for glyphosate ban
The House of Representatives has rejected a petition from various organisations such as Greenpeace and the Consumers’ Association for French-speaking ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, October 3, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Four expert panels say data don’t support IARC’s classification of glyphosate as carcinogenic
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a monograph in 2015 concluding that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to ...
European Food Safety Authority will release glyphosate assessment data
EFSA is to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate, saying the move is ...
GMO proponents may have overstated benefits of herbicide-resistant soy on environment
[M]any people... have talked about how glyphosate tolerant crops allowed replacement of more toxic herbicides. ...[B]ut that trend seems to ...
IARC accused of selectively excluding ‘best’ scientists from glyphosate review
To scientists... what was really alarming was [the IARC] finding that the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the common product ...
Talking Biotech: Cell biologist, author Iida Ruishalme on glyphosate safety, dangers
Cell biologist, author and Thoughtscapism founder Iida Ruishalme's comprehensive assessment of glyphosate ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, September 26, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
‘March Against Monsanto’ now promoting anti-vaccine myths
The international protest "March Against Monsanto" (MAM) was never based on truth. The movement perpetuated myths about GMOs to demonize a company ...
Chemical residues on foods and why dose matters
Dosage is what decides whether a compound actually produces toxic effects in the short-term, or long-term effects, such as cancer ...
Glyphosate herbicide in vaccines? Here is what concerned parents should know
Scientists say Moms Across America glyphosate-vaccine study methods don't reveal anything about herbicide ...
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 ...
South American farmers increasing acreage of Monsanto’s new GMO soy
South American farmers are expected to sow 57 percent more area with Monsanto Co's second-generation, genetically modified soybean seed Intacta ...
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 ...
GMO myth busting: Behold the dandelion, the weed with farm busting superpowers
What does it mean to say that weeds are developing a "resistance" to glyphosate or another pesticide? Is this related ...
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, ...
Ontario farmer: Milkweeds, monarch butterflies and GMOs–What should science-minded farmers do?
I see no scientifically credible reason to be less diligent in removing milkweeds and other unwanted plants from my crop ...
How Monsanto’s ‘big bet’ on dicamba tolerant GMOs may have backfired
. . . . Back in April, [Monsanto] bet big on dicamba, announcing a $975 million expansion of its production facility. . . The chemical ...
Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
. . . The leaves are gone from the . . . peach trees on Bill Bader’s orchard . . ., and soy ...
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 ...
