May 12, 2015 | Featured, Reports
Germany’s state consumer protection ministers are calling for an EU-wide ban on the leading global pesticide Glyphosate, after it was categorised as carcinogenic by the WHO. However, the federal government sees no need for action. EurActiv Germany reports.... 
May 1, 2015 | Featured, Reports
An advocacy group seeking a ban on the world’s most widely used herbicide said Wednesday it is launching a U.S. public testing project to gather data on detectable levels of the herbicide in drinking water, human urine and breast milk. The project, backed in... 
Apr 22, 2015 | Featured, Reports
Is the World’s Number #1 Herbicide in Your Body? The Feed The World (now called The Detox Project) project launched Thursday with a World first, unique glyphosate test for the general public. The project with specific focus on women and children in the U.S. is... Mar 30, 2015 | Featured, Reports
The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup,... 
Mar 30, 2015 | Featured, Reports
Thirty years ago, an Environmental Protection Agency committee determined that the popular weed killer Roundup might cause cancer. Six years later, in 1991, the agency reversed itself after re-evaluating the mouse study that had been the basis for the original... 
Mar 30, 2015 | Featured, Reports
A World Health Organization group’s controversial finding that the world’s most popular herbicide “probably is carcinogenic to humans” was based on a thorough scientific review and is a key marker in ongoing evaluations of the product, the...