Davoren, Michael J, & Schiestl, Robert H., "Glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer risk: a post-IARC decision review of potential mechanisms, policy and avenues of research," Carcinogenesis, 2018, 39:10, 1207-1215. DOI:10.1093/carcin/bgy105. ABSTRACT: Since its initial sales in the 1970s, the herbicide glyphosate…
Clausing, P., Robinson, C., & Burtscher-Schaden, H., "Pesticides and public health: an analysis of the regulatory approach to assessing the carcinogenicity of glyphosate in the European Union," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2018, 72(8), 668-672, DOI:10.1136/jech-2017-209776. ABSTRACT: The present…
Benbrook, Charles M., "How did the US EPA and IARC reach diametrically opposed conclusions on the genotoxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides?," Environmental Sciences Europe, 2019, 31(1), DOI:10.1186/s12302-018-0184-7. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The US EPA considers glyphosate as “not likely to be carcinogenic to…
Benbrook, Charles, "Why Regulators Lost Track and Control of Pesticide Risks: Lessons From the Case of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides and Genetically Engineered-Crop Technology," Current Environmental Health Reports, 5:3, 387-395, 2018, DOI:10.1007/s40572-018-0207-y. ABSTRACT: PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The approval of genetically engineered (GE) crops…
Richmond, Martha E., "Glyphosate: A review of its global use, environmental impact, and potential health effects on humans and other species," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Published online 09/28/2018, doi:10.1007/s13412-018-0517-2. ABSTRACT: Glyphosate, [N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine], was synthesized in 1950 and patented…
Landrigan, P. J., and Belpoggi, F.,"The need for independent research on the health effects of glyphosate-based herbicides," Environmental Health, 17(1), 51, 2018, doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0392-z. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Glyphosate, formulated as Roundup, is the world's most widely used herbicide. Glyphosate is used extensively…
Lisa Neff, "Farmers, conservationists challenge Trump’s EPA, Monsanto over crop-damaging pesticide," The Wisconsin Gazette, February 13, 2018. SUMMARY: Wisconsin Gazette describes the suit against the EPA and Monsanto, which was initiated by five agricultural and environmental watchdog organizations: the Center for Biological…
Johnathan Hettinger, "EPA eased herbicide regulations following Monsanto research, records show," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 1, 2018. SUMMARY: Reports on a document review investigation that reveals that Monsanto's own science played a key role in how the use restrictions for the…
Madelyn Beck, "Federal Suit Alleges Companies Knew Dicamba Would Drift, Monsanto Created Monopoly," KUNC Radio, August 8, 2018. SUMMARY: Describes court documents filed August 2018 on two “master complaints” in the dicamba drift Multi District Litigation (MDL) pending in federal…
Tom Polansek, "U.S. seed sellers push for limits on Monsanto, BASF weed killer," Reuters, August 16, 2018. SUMMARY: Reports on the 2018 dicamba drift crisis and the decision by two large U.S. seed sellers to urge EPA to ban dicamba use…