Category: Legislation

Health Canada acknowledges “troubling allegations” regarding approval of Roundup herbicide

Gil Shochat of the CBC has written about Health Canada reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate. Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada’s most popular herbicide, Roundup. These have never been publicly available AND its […]

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Category: Legislation, Media Watch, Studies

Brazil’s 2018 Glyphosate Timeline

Brazil’s 2018 Glyphosate Timeline 2018-02-20 Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack 2018-08-07 Brazil judge suspends use of glyphosate 2018-08-08 Brazil: Poisonous Agrotoxin Found Over 80% of Breast Milk Samples in Urucui 2018-08-08 Brazil pesticide group to appeal ruling suspending glyphosate weed killer 2018-08-09 Brazil’s public health agency will appeal judge’s nationwide suspension of glyphosate MORE TO COME! Ad below this […]

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Category: Legislation, Uncategorized

Still a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer

Glyphosate is still on California’s so-called Proposition 65 list as a “chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer”. But they recently received an exemption for the requirement to warn consumers about the presence of the herbicide. Major agricultural industry groups sued the state, alleging that a warning label on food would violate 1st Amendment free speech protections […]

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Category: Legislation

glyphosate is listed under Proposition 65 as known to the state (of California) to cause cancer

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced in March 2017 that it will add glyphosate to its Proposition 65 list of carcinogenic chemicals with a delayed effective date due to the pending case Monsanto v OEHHA. Monsanto’s challenge was unsuccessful in the trial court.  Although the case has been appealed, no stay of the listing […]

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Category: Editorial, Legislation