Sentence examples for classification of glyphosate from inspiring English sources

An ECHA spokesman would only say that "currently, ECHA has no opinion on changing the classification of glyphosate".

"I suspect the toxicity classification of glyphosate is too low".

In a separate filing made on Feb. 8, Monsanto submitted a court brief arguing that the IARC classification of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen is not relevant to the question of whether or not Roundup caused the plaintiffs' cancers.

Internal Monsanto emails show that at the same time, Monsanto was also pushing the "duplicative" narrative with HHS, meeting on June 4 with HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Health Mitchel Wolfe to ask him to help repudiate the IARC classification and to recognize that a review of glyphosate was "not the primary role" for his agency.

It found, based on available data, neither "carcinogenic or mutagenic properties of glyphosate nor that glyphosate is toxic to fertility, reproduction or embryonal/fetal development in laboratory animals".

According to Andreas Bauer Panskus, the author of a critical report on glyphosate for the TestBiotech research group though, there is a case of glyphosate's use being restricted.

The typical rate had risen to around three full applications of glyphosate per crop year.

And use of glyphosate skyrocketed, at the expense of rival herbicides.

"It's only down a few percent, but the upward trajectory of glyphosate stopped," he said.

That and the general effectiveness of glyphosate have led to greater weed control.

On soybeans alone last year, farmers sprayed about 33 million pounds of glyphosate.