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Ottawa—A new report by U.S. government scientists has revived the contentious debate about the safety of the herbicide glyphosate even as a wide array of international and national health agencies defend its use.
Pierre Petelle, President and CEO of CropLife Canada, whose members include pesticide manufacturers, said the report “is yet another example of activist groups turning to the courts when their scientific arguments fail. This litigious approach is modeled after what we see in the U.S.
Health Canada continues to approve the product’s use as directed and stated it left no stone unturned in looking at the science behind glyphosate in its most recent re-evaluation decision, Petelle said. People can be exposed to glyphosate by using products with the chemical in it and by eating food and drinking water polluted with it. While the study focused on farmers who were exposed to glyphosate when they sprayed it on their fields, the researchers said they found similar results in non-farmers.
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