Posted February 21, 2020
The US EPA has released its decision on glyphosate for the renewal of the registration of the herbicide. The EPA says it “continues to find that there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label”. The EPA also says that glyphosate is “unlikely to be a human carcinogen”.
Dr Charles Benbrook, project coordinator of the Heartland Study on the effects of herbicide spraying on birth outcomes and children’s health, commented: “I am flabbergasted at this decision. There is NOTHING – ZERO – in the EPA decision to reduce worker exposures and risks.” Read more.