[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]European Union regulators concludes that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer[/title][fusion_text]Monday, November 16th 2015
European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The European Food Safety Authority and the EU member countries announced Thursday that they had finished a re-assessment of glyphosate, best known as Roundup. In addition to deciding that the chemical was unlikely to be carcinogenic the agency also proposed a new safety limit for glyphosate residues in food. The European Commission will use the finding in deciding whether to keep glyphosate on the EU’s list of approved active substances. EU member governments also will use the decision in re-assessing the safety of herbicides used in their countries. A peer review expert group made up of EFSA scientists and representatives from the risk-assessment groups in the EU member countries set a new limit, or “acute reference dose,” for glyphosate of 0.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. An acute reference dose is the estimated amount of a chemical substance in food that can be ingested during one meal or one day without posing a health risk. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is undertaking a comprehensive review of glyphosate, said Thursday that it will publish in the next several months the agency’s draft human health and ecological risk assessments. The agency plans to take comment on the review for 60 days. EPA plans to issue a proposed interim decision for glyphosate in 2016 and an interim final decision in 2017.
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