Center For Biological Diversity: New Analyses Of Pesticides and Rare Cancer Warnings

Two new analyses show that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to require cancer warnings on pesticide products — even when its own assessments found a high cancer risk for those products. The Center for Biological Diversity looked at labels for all currently approved pesticides, finding that the EPA put cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 products (that's 1.4%) the agency itself designated a “likely” human carcinogen. contain ingredients with “possible” or “suggestive” links to cancer have cancer warnings from the EPA. The analyses come as one of the world’s top pesticide manufacturers, Bayer, seeks to rid itself of costly litigation over whether its glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer. More HERE.