The EPA states that glyphosate is not carcinogenic when used as directed. In the United States, the Roundup pesticide continues to be marketed, and the Trump administration insists it is safe for humans. All of this is happening as thousands of people continue to sue Monsanto Bayer over the product's carcinogenicity.
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Despite the cancer cases, despite the defeats in court and the opinions of European agencies, the environment agency continues to insist: glyphosate is safe
The EPA states that glyphosate is not carcinogenic when used as directed. In the United States, the Roundup pesticide continues to be marketed, and the Trump administration insists it is safe for humans. All of this is happening as thousands of people continue to sue Monsanto Bayer over the product's carcinogenicity.
Il glyphosate is not carcinogenic and does not involve risks for public health if it is used according to the indications given on the label. This was established by the US Environment Agency (EPA) after the Bayer-owned Monsanto in recent months was forced to compensate farmers who would get cancer after using the most famous herbicide in the world.
In August 2018, the company was ordered to pay $ 289 million to gardener Lee Johnson suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the second ruling sentenced the agrochemical giant to pay $ 80 million to 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, l man who for years had used Roundup products to treat poison oak and weed overgrowth on his property.
We know that glyphosate is used on over 100 crops, including soy, corn, beet, cotton, and other crops. But if on the one hand, associations and organizations support the possible correlation with the onset of cancer, on the other hand the EPA exonerates it, arguing that there is no danger if it is used in the right way.
As we know, the pesticide is time at the center of controversy. For years, the non-profit environmental working group (EWG) and the main organic players have been calling on the EPA to set a lower level on the use of glyphosate and to ban spraying the chemical shortly before harvest.
We know, however, that this does not happen, since glyphosate is now everywhere: from beer to pasta, from diapers to sanitary napkins. Yet according to the EPA, the decision that glyphosate does not cause cancer is "consistent with the conclusions of the scientific analyzes of many other countries and other federal agencies."
But the Agency for the Register of Toxic Substances and Diseases claims exactly the opposite, as does the IARC, which has declared glyphosate carcinogenic since 2015.
"All of us are at risk of cancer because as the latest research has indicated, glyphosate can interfere with the endocrine system," said Olga Naidenko, senior scientific advisor to the EWG.
If on the health side the statements of the EPA are clear, on the ecological one the body seems to be taking a step back. Glyphosate is an ecological danger and for this reason it is necessary to find "measures to help farmers target weeds directly, avoiding killing pollinators and reducing the problem of weeds that become resistant to glyphosate".
Bayer has repeatedly denied allegations that the herbicide causes cancer, while according to Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group:
"Unfortunately, American consumers cannot trust EPA's assessment of the safety of glyphosate."
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Dominella Trunfio
