glyphosate, Tag

Reaching for the weed-killer glyphosate in Germany won’t be an option much longer. A primary component of Roundup, manufactured by Bayer-owned Monsanto, glyphosate's critics believe it wipes out insect populations essential...

The toxic chemical glyphosate, a common herbicide, has been found to be a threat to public health and a recognized carcinogenic. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is caught between a weed and a hard place as...

Researchers have discovered Glyphosate — an ingredient found in some weedkillers — in name brand wines and beers. Scientists from U.S. PIRG tested 20 different alcoholic brands and found the troubling ingredient in 19...

Bad news for anyone who likes to eat cereal, or granola bars, or anything that contains oats at all: a recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested 45 conventional oat products for the presence of glyphosate,...

Agrochemical company Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million to school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who said the Bayer subsidiary's chemical products gave him cancer...

Beekeepers in France aren't happy with Bayer. Agence France Presse reported (AFP) a beekeeping cooperative in the northern part of the country filed a legal complaint against the chemical giant after the controversial herbicide...

For the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been testing food samples for the weedkiller glyphosate, but the agency hasn't released any results of their findings...

Monsanto recently refused to be present at a hearing in which the European parliament planned to dig into allegations the agrochemical company unduly influenced studies into glyphosate's safety, according to The Guardian...

Ever since the World Health Organization (WHO) deemed Monsanto’s glyphosate — a key ingredient in its Roundup weed killer — to be "probably carcinogenic,” the agrochemical giant has fought back with a vengeance...

An EPA official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto’s popular Roundup weedkiller has been accused of conspiring with the company to “kill” the study...

St. Patrick's day is here, and with the plastic shamrocks popping up in stores everywhere, it got me thinking about the real plant, which grows everywhere around the world, and is under attack with a vengeance by the city...

New data has emerged on how widespread the use of herbicides, including glyphosate, has become in North American federal and tribal land. In 2010 alone, 200 tons of the stuff was sprayed on natural wild lands to help curb...

As evidence mounts regarding the environmental and health problems associated with widespread use of the pesticide glyphosate—aka Monsanto’s Roundup—consumer advocacy groups are mobilizing to work for government action...

A woman’s monthly cycle can be the source of great discomfort, but toxic disposable products can make it a downright nightmare. Cotton tampons and disposable pads have come along way since they were first introduced in...

Glyphosate, the toxic pesticide linked to cancer and autism, is pervasive in agriculture, and a new study revealed that the chemical has even made its way into California’s wines...