Study measured glyphosate in urine and found high levels associated with signs of oxidative stress
and the ouster of top leaders after the company lost 40% of its market value following its 2018 acquisition of Monsanto.and that products made with it can be used safely. The company did not respond to a request for comment on the NIH study but states on its website that EPA and other regulatory reviews of an “extensive body of research” back the company’s safety pledge.
Many large US farm groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Cotton Council, and American Sugarbeet Growers Association,The EPA has said for years that it considers glyphosate as “not likely” to be carcinogenic, and in a 2020 updated review, the agency reiterated it saw no “human health risks “of concern”.
The EPA now is revisiting its glyphosate evaluation but has said publicly it does not plan to change its position on the chemical’s safety for humans.Debate over the safety of glyphosate has persisted for years and intensified after the International Agency for Research on Cancer , a unit of the World Health Organization, declared it “probably carcinogenic to humans” in 2015.
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