Leaked proposal on glyphosate seen by the Guardian has few substantive changes from the one that was blocked final monthThe European commission is planning to relicense a controversial weedkiller that the World Health Organisation believes probably causes cancer in people,despite opposition from several countries and the European parliament.
In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer – WHO’s cancer agency – said that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide made by agriculture company Monsanto and used widely with GM crops around the world, and was classified as probably carcinogenic to humans.
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Source: theguardian.com