Cancer committee under siege over glyphosate

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research agency has been attacked following revelations that unpublished research that found that the herbicide glyphosate was safe was not considered before being found to be ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ in March 2015. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and Monsanto, which makes the herbicide, suggest that the Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) monograph should be withdrawn, and that the agency’s other monographs should be examined more closely.