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EPA Glyphosate Panel Split on Chemical's Carcinogenicity

Steve Davies, writing for Agri-Pulse, reported on the 4-day meeting in December of a scientific advisory panel EPA convened to review evidence of whether glyphosate is a human carcinogen. The result, he wrote, was that the panel was split on the issue: "Some members backed EPA's finding and others said that the evidence was 'suggestive' of carcinogenic potential for the chemical."  

Although the panel will have 90 days to synthesize their thoughts into an official but nonbinding report to the EPA, Davies' article points out that panel members who supported EPA said the evidence from the epidemiological and animal studies was simply not strong enough to support anything else. But there was uncertainty all around the table as members wrestled with EPA's review of the data in its September 2016 "white paper."


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