The Environmental Working Group and other food companies sent a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency this week, calling for more stringent limits on the amount of glyphosate residues allowed on oats and a prohibition on the pesticide’s use as a pre-harvest drying agent. In the petition, the group is...
In recent years, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate (the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup) as a probable carcinogenic. This statement was backed by a number of research studies linking glyphosate to a variety of cancers including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, renal cancers, skin cancers and pancreatic cancer. In subsequent meetings...
