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EPA says glyphosate does not cause cancer in humans
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft human health risk assessment stating that weed-killer glyphosate likely does not cause cancer in humans.
The assessment concluded there are no meaningful risks to human health when the pesticide label is followed, and it should be classified as “not likely to be a carcinogen for humans.”
The EPA says the findings are consistent with the 2017 National Institute of Health Agricultural Health Survey, which found “no statistically significant associations with glyphosate use and cancer at any site.”
The findings contradict the advisory by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which concluded in 2015 that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic.” The state of California plans to add glyphosate to its list of cancer-causing chemicals, which requires that products containing or grown with glyphosate carry warnings that it is a known carcinogen.
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