[Mercola]: California's Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced in 2015 that they intended to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, as a chemical known to cause cancer under Proposition 65, which requires consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredients to bear warning labels. Glyphosate was officially added to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens in July 2017, and warning labels stating that glyphosate may cause cancer were supposed to be added to products beginning in the summer of 2018. The labels, however, were halted when Monsanto (which Bayer acquired in June 2018) challenged the California rule in court.
It’s not surprising that Monsanto/Bayer would sue to stop cancer warning labels from being added to glyphosate-based products like Roundup. What is surprising is that the U.S. EPA has now joined in the fight — but instead of looking out for the public, they’re squarely in support of the pesticide industry....read more>>>...
