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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 09:20 PM Jun 2017

California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight

Source: Reuters

HEALTH NEWS | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 7:42pm EDT

California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight

By Karl Plume

Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday.

Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision "unwarranted on the basis of science and the law."

The listing is the latest legal setback for the seeds and chemicals company, which has faced increasing litigation over glyphosate since the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said that it is "probably carcinogenic" in a controversial ruling in 2015.

Dicamba, a weed killer designed for use with Monsanto's next generation of biotech crops, is under scrutiny in Arkansas after the state's plant board voted last week to ban the chemical.

OEHHA said the designation of glyphosate under Proposition 65 will proceed following an unsuccessful attempt by Monsanto to block the listing in trial court and after requests for stay were denied by a state appellate court and the California's Supreme Court.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-glyphosate-california-idUSKBN19H2K1

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California to list glyphosate as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2017 OP
Monsanto is Evil gtar100 Jun 2017 #1
Agreed Duppers Jun 2017 #4
I'm certainly not going to defend Monsanto. JayhawkSD Jun 2017 #2
Alcohol is also listed as a possible carcinogen by the WHO NickB79 Jun 2017 #3
Alcohol is on the Prop 65 list; the warning is required to be posted at the petronius Jun 2017 #5

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
1. Monsanto is Evil
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 09:53 PM
Jun 2017

A true failure of a business if there ever was one. Their "success" relies on careless application of chemicals in our *shared* environment, testing for the purpose of getting approval and not the truth (that eventually does come out), genetic and chemical manipulation of the world's seed resources followed by threats of lawsuits against anyone who doesn't play their game, brute force manipulation of legislation, and even violence where they can get away with it just to keep themselves in the market. They can't seem to make the company work with a model that is both environmentally responsible and humane. They fail at honest, hard work. They may have a lot of money but it's tainted with blood, disease and death.

 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
2. I'm certainly not going to defend Monsanto.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:14 AM
Jun 2017

I wouldn't go quite as far as gtar100 and call them evil, but I don't like them much. Their defense of organophosphates has been very sketchy indeed, particularly Diazanon, and their marketing is sleazy as hell.

But the claim that gyyphosphate causes cancer is very thin, and California is ignoring several studies that suggest that it does nothing of the sort; in particular one study which found no link and was ignored because it was "too large to be included in the findings." As much as I dislike Monsanto, I think it has a valid complaint on this one.

NickB79

(19,253 posts)
3. Alcohol is also listed as a possible carcinogen by the WHO
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 05:40 AM
Jun 2017

When are they putting a warning label on cans of Coors?

petronius

(26,602 posts)
5. Alcohol is on the Prop 65 list; the warning is required to be posted at the
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:46 PM
Jun 2017

point of sale, and the beverage industry provides the signs.

My understanding in general is that the required warning doesn't have to be a label directly on the package, it just has to be "clear and reasonable." I would imagine that Monsanto could use the sign-posting strategy, if they don't want to change the package labeling (e.g., for non-California sales)...

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/general-info/proposition-65-plain-language

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