The active ingredient in Roundup does not cause cancer, according to scientists at the National Cancer Institute. Researchers followed over 50,000 people who used pesticides to see if the ones who used Roundup developed any kind of cancer. The results were published Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

 

Farmers, the NCI’s website states, have generally lower death rates than the average American, in part because their job requires more activity. However, the rates of some cancers are higher. “Farmers, farmworkers and farm family members may be exposed to substances such as pesticides, engine exhausts, solvents, dusts, animal viruses, fertilizers, fuels and specific microbes that may account for these elevated cancer rates,” the Institute notes. The same cohort of people has been used to evaluate the potential increased cancer risks associated with pesticides before.

 

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