Carcinogenic glyphosate: EU declared it safe, but EPA executives were corrupt

EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, has rejected a study linking glyphosate to cancer, based on what was claimed by one of the former EPA leaders

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THEEFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, has rejected one study linking glyphosate to cancer, based on what was argued by one of the former top management of the EPA.





It was reported by the Guardian, according to which Jess Rowlands, former head of the EPA's Cancer Control Commission involved in more than 20 lawsuits, told Monsanto that it would try to block a US government investigation into the matter.

One of the symbols of the brand RoundUp at Monsanto and the glyphosate, for which just last week the European Commission has proposed a new ten-year license.

Doubts were raised by a series of papers concerning the lawsuits made against Monsanto by the sufferers of non-hodgkins lymphoma, who claim to have contracted the disease as a result of exposure to the herbicide.

Recently, the Guardian got to read one email exchange dating back to 2015 and relating to a US government investigation into glyphosate in which Rowlands is involved.

His position was revealed in a letter sent by the head of EFSA's pesticides unit, Joseph Tarazona, to toxicologist Peter Clausing.

A each other controversial and with unclear outlines but from which, according to the British newspaper, the role of Jess Rowland in the evaluation of the carcinogenicity of glyphosate in the United States would emerge. In fact, there is talk of doubts about the possibility that Rowland may have provided information incorrect, which have not been reviewed by EFSA and its experts.

Following this, EFSA allegedly used Rowlands' arguments to reject a pivotal 2001 study that found a causal link between glyphosate exposure and increased tumor incidence in mice.

A spokesperson for Monsanto, however, replied above all by saying that these conclusions cannot be drawn by reading a single email out of contention:



"Reading a single e-mail out of context does not change the fact that the EPA and regulators around the world, as well as a branch of the World Health Organization that analyzed pesticide residues, have concluded that glyphosate is unlikely may be carcinogenic to humans ".

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Still, the IARC last year classified it as a substance likely to be carcinogenic to humans.



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