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EU agency says glyphosate not carcinogenic
Mar 16, 2017, 15:28 PM
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The European Chemicals Agency says the herbicide glyphosate is not carcinogenic, opening the way for its continued use in the European Union. A Bloomberg report says the panel’s conclusion is that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, can potentially cause serious eye damage and is toxic to aquatic life. But the agency says there’s no evidence that it’s carcinogenic, or that it’s toxic to reproduction or that it causes changes to genetic material.
In addition to Roundup, glyphosate is also in products registered by BASF, DuPont, FMC and Syngenta.
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