21-03-15 00:43 pm – Source: AP
Protesters march on the Dam by US multinational Monsanto, maker of genetically engineered products and herbicide Roundup © anp
Glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular herbicides, is possibly carcinogenic. The Department for Research on Cancer of the World Health takes into account that industrial use of the drug, as in large-scale farming, is dangerous.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) considers use of the drug, known as However, the brand name Roundup, through gardening individuals not risky.
The IARC made Thursday in the journal The Lancet Oncology known glyphosate to henceforth regarded as potentially carcinogenic. That’s ranking of anxiety that the second category. Include anabolic steroids and work in shifts fall into the same group.
Farmworkers
There is “limited evidence” that could cause the herbicide human non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . In the meantime, has been convincingly demonstrated that rats and mice by exposure to glyphosate may develop different forms of cancer. According to the IARC is the drug found in the blood of farm workers, showing that it is absorbed by the body. The agency is particularly concerned about people who work daily with glyphosate.
Roundup
Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, it wholeheartedly disagree with the decision of the IARC . “Every prescribed use of glyphosate is not harmful to health,” said spokesman Phil Miller in a comment.
US chemical company Monsanto is the world leader in the field of genetic modification of seeds and producer of Roundup, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, consisting of glyphosate. In the Netherlands from Roundup may end this year no longer be sold to individuals
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