FAQs: Glyphosate

Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in human history^[1]:

3.5 Billion pounds (1.6 Billion Kilograms) sprayed across America since 1974
18.9 Billion pounds (8.6 Billion Kilograms) sprayed worldwide since 1974
Glyphosate use has increased 15-fold since genetically modified crops were introduced in 1996

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)^[6]: Glyphosate = probable human carcinogen
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)^[7]: Glyphosate = unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)^[8]: New evaluation still pending

To help guide the public and regulators we all now need the first ever comprehensive study on glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides.

Glyphosate has never been comprehensively studied to find out:

What levels of glyphosate are safe or not – including levels the public is exposed to
What specific harm is being caused to human health – if any

1. Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0

3. Glyphosate and Its Degradation Product AMPA Occur Frequently and Widely in U.S. Soils, Surface Water, Groundwater, and Precipitation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jawr.12159/abstract;jsessionid=627881F2E3FB2D580B24CCF6F2B2A33D.f03t02

5. UCSF Presentation: Bio-monitoring of glyphosate across the United States in urine and tap water using high-fidelity LC-MS/MS method
http://detoxproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/APAMT-Poster-Gerona.ppt

6. Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2815%2970134-8/abstract