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EPA deserves some respect: Environmental regulations should be refined, not dismantled
Primarily in Europe, but increasingly in the US, junk science and activist manipulation diminish the scientific integrity of the regulatory ...
Glyphosate: Dangerous chemical or anti-GMO bogeyman?
Glyphosate has drawn scrutiny and criticism like no other chemical in agriculture since the controversy over DDT. But years of ...
Glyphosate found ‘not carcinogenic’: Key European safety agency joins consensus view on herbicide’s safety
A key European safety agency says glyphosate does not cause cancer, paving the way for the herbicide to regain long-term ...
1 cigarette ‘more carcinogenic and toxic’ than a spoonful of glyphosate pesticide
[Editor's note: Matan Shelomi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Entomology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...
WHO’s much-criticized agency IARC’s quizzical flip flop on whether coffee poses cancer hazard
For decades, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) warned coffee drinkers that their favorite beverage might cause cancer ...
Chemical companies: Reform WHO’s ‘rogue’ IARC cancer-designating agency
Launching what it called a campaign for accuracy in public health research, the American Chemistry Council, which represents U.S. chemical ...
How conflicts of interest, NGO activism undermine European bee health oversight
The EU recently banned three neonicotinoids to protect honeybees. But a closer look shows the decision was influenced by an ...
Will Trump cut funding of UN agency accused of ‘shoddy science’ for designating glyphosate probable carcinogen?
Editor's note: This article discusses the International Agency (IARC) for Research on Cancer, a sub-group of the World Health Organization ...
Glyphosate found in urine poses no health risk in German study
... Glyphosate sales in Germany have increased substantially from ... 2000 to … 2014. The interim peak of approx. 7600 ...
French geneticist warns ‘new religion of precaution’ threatens US GMO policy, science
Since the first cargo of genetically modified soybeans was delivered to Europe 20 years ago, scientists have come under fire ...
While safety of herbicide glyphosate is clear, doubts fueled by WHO’s IARC undermines trust in science
Most regulators around the world have concluded that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer. But one agency disagrees. The International ...
US scientist Matt Ross briefly resigned from WHO cancer agency IARC over fears his emails would be made public
A scientist involved in an international organization researching cancer offered his resignation in April because of uncertainty over whether its ...
Does the herbicide glyphosate cause cancer? The GLP does a deep dive into the science
Glyphosate--an herbicide pioneered by Monsanto but now off patent--has emerged as a proxy for critics of crop biotechnology and intensive ...
European scientist: WHO’s IARC faces scrutiny over glyphosate cancer designation
One of the World Health Organization's cancer research bodies faces increasing criticism because of its questionable categorizations of numerous safe ...
Has WHO’s IARC cancer agency, partly funded by US, outlived its usefulness?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has come under fire from scientists, regulators, and journalists for recently concluding that ...
WHO’s cancer agency claims “transparency”, moves to block glyphosate Freedom of Information requests
The World Health Organization's cancer agency [IARC]--which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens--advised academic experts ... who worked ...
House committee to grill NIH over financial support for UN IARC agency accused of science bias
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is being called ... to explain why it gave tens of millions of dollars to the ...
Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...
IARC under fire: Congressman presses investigation of US taxpayer-funded UN cancer agency
Chaffetz, who is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says IARC has a "record of controversy, ...
Will US cut off support for WHO’s IARC over pilloried glyphosate cancer report?
Regulatory agencies in the US, Europe and most recently Australia have concluded that the International Cancer Research Agency botched its ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
