Glyphosate isn’t likely to be carcinogenic

See Supreme Court Grills Bayer Over Failure to Warn Consumers About Roundup Risks by Patrick Thomas and Lydia Wheeler of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"Bayer has maintained that Roundup is safe to use. Governments globally and the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. have repeatedly determined that glyphosate isn’t likely to be carcinogenic in humans and approved Roundup labels that didn’t include cancer warnings."

"plaintiffs argue the company should go further in how it warns farmers and landscapers of the risks the herbicide may pose. But Bayer argues that those claims supersede the EPA’s authority and would cause a patchwork of rules imposed by individual states.

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) prohibits states from imposing different or additional warnings from those required under the federal law."

Also see MAHA Moms Are Protesting Against Pesticides by Sabrina Siddiqui and Sara Ashley O’Brien of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"“The fact is that no health regulator anywhere in the world has ever found glyphosate to pose a threat to human health,” the company said in a statement. Bayer said that the Environmental Protection Agency and the European Union have repeatedly found that glyphosate products can be used safely according to the product label directions."

"Pressure around the issue has mounted for months. When a review paper that concluded glyphosate wasn’t a risk to people’s health was retracted last year by the scientific journal that published it 25 years ago over concerns about Monsanto’s involvement, a firestorm went off among those concerned with the chemical’s safety. The Environmental Protection Agency has said the government did not rely solely on the paper when evaluating glyphosate.

“Monsanto’s involvement with the Williams et al paper did not rise to the level of authorship and was appropriately disclosed in the acknowledgments,” Bayer said in a statement."