Competing Claims Over Glyphosate's Risks Pose Challenge For EPA SAP

October 21, 2016
Pesticide industry officials and environmentalists are waging competing claims over the public health risks from the world's most commonly-used herbicide glyphosate in comments to a delayed EPA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP), highlighting the challenge the panel faces in its pending work to assess evidence on the substance's risks. “The overwhelming consensus of regulatory agencies and scientific organizations such as [EPA], Health Canada, the European Commission, and the World Health Organization is that glyphosate used according to label directions poses no...


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