Glyphosate a "possible carcinogen" says U.N.’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

  Biggest news this weekend is that the U.N.’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has listed Glyphosate as a "possible carcinogen".  That basically means that there is enough evidence to show that it may cause cancer.  This is based on their survey of research available.  This is an important statement because they are admitting that this research does exist.  They also noted that glyphosate has "the highest production volumes of all herbicides.  It is used in more than 750 different products for agriculture, forestry, urban, and home applications."  Keep in mind that there is a study linking glyphosate to breast cancer.
  Glyphosate is showing up everywhere, and the regulators need to understand that it is not only agricultural workers that are being exposed.  When residue is in our food supply, the exposures will come every time someone consumes food.  The problems linked to glyphosate span the spectrum from human to animal. 



 A sample of their report:

"Glyphosate has been detected in

the blood and urine of agricultural

workers, indicating absorption.

Soil microbes degrade glyphosate

to aminomethylphosphoric acid

(AMPA). Blood AMPA detection

after poisonings suggests intestinal

micro bial metabolism in humans.

Glyphosate and glyphosate formulations

induced DNA and chromosomal

damage in mammals, and in human

and animal cells in vitro. One study

reported increases in blood markers of

chromosomal damage (micronuclei) in

residents of several communities after

 

spraying of glyphosate formulations.16

Bacterial mutagenesis tests were

negative. Glyphosate, glyphosate

formulations, and AMPA induced

oxidative stress in rodents and in

vitro. The Working Group classifi ed

glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic

to humans” (Group 2A).   


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2815%2970134-8/abstract
The full article is available here (you may have to register to see it.  http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanonc/PIIS1470-2045(15)70134-8.pdf