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EPA BLOCKS CALIFORNIA RULE REQUIRING GLYPHOSATE BE LABELED CARCINOGENIC
Aug. 9, 2019
Agri-Pulse reports:
EPA has told pesticide registrants it won't allow them to label glyphosate-based products with warnings saying the chemical, the active ingredient in Roundup, is carcinogenic.
"It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said.
To view the EPA statement click here.
California's Proposition 65 law required the warning label two years ago, but a federal judge called it "factually inaccurate and controversial" in a decision that stopped California from implementing the requirement.
Roundup registrant Bayer called EPA's announcement "fully consistent with the science-based conclusions reached by the agency and leading health regulators worldwide for more than four decades, that glyphosate-based herbicides can be used safely as labelled, and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic."
California based its Prop 65 determination on the International Agency for Research on Cancer's 2015 conclusion that glyphosate is probably a human carcinogen.
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