Five newly published papers warn that glyphosate or glyphosate-based herbicides may have harmful reproductive consequences. The new research on animals adds to concerns that glyphosate can interfere with fertility and disrupt normal reproductive functions.
For more information about health problems associated with the world’s most widely used herbicide, see our Glyphosate Fact Sheet.
EPA deletes director's name from comment about glyphosate cancer link: A public comment signed by a high-ranking public official warned of cancer links to glyphosate, but EPA removed his name and marked the comment "anonymous" after we called attention to it. The comment attributed to Patrick Breysse, director of the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), was filed with the EPA in October 2019, stating that research supports a cancer connection to glyphosate but the EPA has been subjected to corporate influence:
“Numerous studies have linked its use to an increase in lymphomas, and it's time we stopped letting the chemical industry manipulate research to serve its own interest,” Breysse said in the public comment filed with EPA. “U.S. citizens need to trust the Environmental Protection Agency to operate in our best interest, which means weighing evidence from neutral scientific sources not vested in the outcome.”
Roundup trial update: Last week we reported that a federal judge had harsh words for Bayer AG’s plan to delay potential future Roundup cancer lawsuits and block jury trials. Bayer has since backed away from the plan the judge had criticized as potentially unconstitutional. Read the latest in Carey Gillam’s Roundup Trial Tracker.
COVID-19 news: Jane Mayer reports in The New Yorker on the secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies — one of President Trump’s top donors — who is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis and his vast fortune to strip workers of protections. See also the editorial in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine by Maryanne Demasi arguing that a low carbohydrate diet could be part of the solution to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more pandemic related food news, check out our Coronavirus Food News Tracker.
More food news of the week:
- About 14 million children in the US are not getting enough to eat – Brookings
- UN experts call on rich countries to end export of banned pesticides – Unearthed
- Junk food deals will be banned in Boris Johnson’s assault on obesity – The Times
- Dicamba 2020: What went wrong in Iowa? – Successful Farmer
- Meet the small-town law firm taking Bayer for billions in Roundup lawsuits — Fox Business
- United States Should Ban Use of Glyphosate on Food Crops — Human Rights Watch
- Loophole keeps bee-killing pesticides in widespread use, two years after EU ban – Unearthed
- Major oat buyer to ban pre-harvest glyphosate – The Western Producer
- COVID-19 hit U.S. meat, poultry plant workers hard in April, May: U.S. report – Reuters
- UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease – UC Riverside News
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