European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. 

 

The European Food Safety Authority and the EU member countries announced Thursday that they had finished a re-assessment of glyphosate, best known as Roundup. In addition to deciding that the chemical was unlikely to be carcinogenic the agency also proposed a new safety limit for glyphosate residues in food. 

 

“This has been an exhaustive process - a full assessment that has taken into account a wealth of new studies and data. By introducing an acute reference dose we are further tightening the way potential risks from glyphosate will be assessed in the future,” said Jose Tarazona, head of EFSA's Pesticides Unit.

 

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