Insights and Stories on Glyphosate

Colombia calls off aerial coca spraying

May. 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm CDT

Bogota | Reuters –– Colombia will suspend aerial fumigation of illegal coca plants in light of a number of studies linking the herbicide involved to cancer, a move that marks the end of a decades-long strategy in the country’s fight against drug trafficking. Spraying coca leaves, which are used to […]

As it woos Syngenta, Monsanto mounts campaign to combat critics

May. 15, 2015 at 5:43 pm CDT

By Carey Gillam

Monsanto’s Syngenta gambit seen hinging on sale of seed businesses

May. 14, 2015 at 5:56 pm CDT

By Arno Schuetze Ludwig Burger Pamela Barbaglia

WHO findings on glyphosate won’t speed up EU safety review

May. 13, 2015 at 1:58 pm CDT

By barbara-lewis

U.S. regulators may recommend testing food for glyphosate residues

Apr. 18, 2015 at 11:46 am CDT

By Carey Gillam

PMRA review calls for slim changes to glyphosate label

Apr. 14, 2015 at 6:17 pm CDT

A federal re-evaluation of glyphosate’s health risks leaves the popular herbicide’s status unchanged in Canada — but proposes tweaks to the product label as a “risk-reduction” measure. Products containing glyphosate “do not present unacceptable risks to human health or the environment when used according to the proposed label directions,” Health […]

By Staff

Chinese citizens sue government over transparency on Roundup

Apr. 9, 2015 at 2:02 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– Three Chinese citizens are taking China’s Ministry of Agriculture to court in a bid to make public a toxicology report supporting the approval of Monsanto’s popular herbicide, Roundup, 27 years ago. The case, a rare example of a lawsuit by private citizens against the Chinese government, […]

By Dominique Patton

U.S. EPA to require weed-resistance restrictions on glyphosate

Mar. 31, 2015 at 6:11 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world’s most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of weeds resistant to the chemical, Reuters has learned. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed it will require a weed resistance management plan for glyphosate, the key ingredient […]

By Carey Gillam

Scientist defends WHO group report linking glyphosate to cancer

Mar. 26, 2015 at 6:04 pm CDT

Reuters — A World Health Organization group’s controversial finding that the world’s most popular herbicide is “probably carcinogenic to humans” was based on a thorough scientific review and is a key marker in ongoing evaluations of the product, the scientist who led the study said Thursday. “There were several studies. […]

By Carey Gillam

Monsanto seeks retraction for report linking herbicide to cancer

Mar. 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm CDT

Reuters — Monsanto, maker of the world’s most widely used herbicide, Roundup, wants an international health organization to retract a report linking the product’s chief ingredient to cancer. The company said Tuesday that the report, issued on Friday by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), […]

By Carey Gillam

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