Gnads wrote on Dec 1
st, 2019 at 11:56am:
He told a reporter that RoundUp was so safe you could drink it .....
"On March 20, 2015, IARC announced its conclusion: Glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans."
"The scientific picture got more complicated, though. Other government agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Food Safety Authority, took a fresh look at glyphosate. And they concluded that it probably is not giving people cancer."
"David Eastmond, a toxicologist from the University of California, Riverside, helped conduct one of these glyphosate reviews for another part of the World Health Organization, the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues.
"From my reading of things, if glyphosate causes cancer, it's a pretty weak carcinogen, which means that you're going to need pretty high doses in order to cause it," he says.
Eastmond says that there are several reasons for this apparent disagreement between IARC and the other agencies.
First, IARC just looks at whether glyphosate
can cause cancer; regulators, on the other hand,
have to decide whether it actually will, considering how much of it people are exposed to."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/30/727914874/safe-or-scary-the-shif...As to whether it is safe to drink it probably is at the recommended level.