Monsanto responds to glyphosate-birth defects report: Earth Open Source replies

By Earth Open Source

Monsanto responded to our report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” [summary here] in a statement on its website:

“Regulatory authorities and independent experts around the world agree that glyphosate does not cause adverse reproductive effects in adult animals or birth defects in offspring of these adults exposed to glyphosate, even at doses far higher than relevant environmental or occupational exposures.”

However, one of the main points of our report is that regulatory authorities have indeed agreed that glyphosate does not cause birth defects – but that conclusion is directly contradicted by the evidence in industry’s own studies.

Regulators knew Roundup causes birth defects: Lied to public

UPDATE: Monsanto responds to glyphosate-birth defects report: Earth Open Source replies

By Earth Open Source

Industry and EU regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s-1990s that Roundup, the world’s best selling herbicide, causes birth defects – but they failed to inform the public. This is the conclusion of a new report, “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” co-authored by a group of international scientists and researchers and released yesterday.[1]

The report reveals that industry’s own studies (including one commissioned by Monsanto) showed as long ago as the 1980s that Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate causes birth defects in laboratory animals.