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05/06/2016 / By epanews

Large coalition of environmental activists rally outside White House, demand EPA revoke glyphosate license

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently conducting a “registration review” of glyphosate to determine if the chemical is safe to use for another 15 years. For it to be approved, the chemical must be in compliance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, which requires that under proper use the chemical “will not […]

05/06/2016 / By epanews

Urgent action alert: EPA about to raise allowable concentrations of glyphosate on food crops, edible oils and animal feed – comments needed by July 1

This is an urgent action alert from Natural News and the Health Ranger. Public comments are due by July 1 to object to new EPA regulations which are already in place, allowing glyphosate contamination of food crops, edible oils and waterways at concentrations which are thousands of times higher than the amount needed to cause […]

05/06/2016 / By epanews

EPA bases glyphosate safety on Monsanto data before mysteriously yanking documents from website, saying review is incomplete

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently assessing the toxicity of the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. The agency reviews each registered pesticide every 15 years to determine its safety and whether or not it’s still in compliance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Though the EPA […]

05/06/2016 / By epanews

EPA takes offline report that says glyphosate not likely carcinogenic

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pulled a report offline that concluded glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, saying the document was inadvertently published and the agency had not finished its review of the chemical, which is the key ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicides. (Article by P.J. Huffstutter, republished from http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-epa-idUSKCN0XU01K) The […]

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