Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 8/15/18


A landmark court ruling in the U.S. holding Monsanto liable for causing cancer through its glyphosate-based weedkiller is adding fuel to the fire of a years long battle over the product’s future in Europe. Debate over the safety of glyphosate has waged across the Continent’s agriculture sector since 2015, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that glyphosate “probably” causes cancer, in contrast to the European Food Safety Authority’s finding the same year that it is “unlikely” to do so.

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