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By Julia Conley
Citing research from the U.S. government’s own National Institutes of Health (NIH), a coalition of environmental and farmworkers groups said Wednesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is out of excuses for continuing to allow the use of the herbicide glyphosate, which has been linked to cancer in people who are exposed to it.
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a petition with the EPA on behalf of Beyond Pesticides and four farmworkers’ groups, including Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, saying glyphosate’s registration in the U.S. is illegal.
The petition was filed a week after cancer scientists at the NIH published a study in Environmental Health Perspectives, which found that male farmers had “markers of genotoxicity” when they reported high levels of glyphosate use.
BREAKING🚨: We just filed a groundbreaking legal action calling on EPA to immediately suspend and cancel the dangerous herbicide glyphosate, laying out how it's current registration is illegal. #glyphosate #pesticides https://t.co/9lTw6TT0mq
— Center for Food Safety (@CFSTrueFood) December 13, 2023
The study is only the latest to link glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, with cancer and other health issues.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer warned in 2015 that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” and Roundup manufacturer Monsanto — now owned by Bayer — was ordered to pay more than $2.3 billion by juries in 2018 and 2019 for failing to warn the public about the product’s risks.
“Farmworker women and their families have experienced the damaging health effects of pesticides for far too long,” said Mily Treviño-Sauceda, executive director of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas. “EPA must protect the nation’s farmworkers and our environment by immediately suspending and canceling all glyphosate registrations.”
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit struck down the EPA’s claim that glyphosate is safe…
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