Glyphosate and Pesticide Hazards

Court overturns approval of controversial dicamba herbicide

Federal court holds Monsanto/Bayer’s dicamba herbicide unlawful, citing unprecedented drift damage to millions of acres A federal court recently overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of dicamba herbicide, which is made by pesticide giants Bayer, BASF and Corteva Agrisciences. The ruling makes it illegal for farmers to continue using the weedkiller. The U.S. Court […]

Bayer’s new legal headache: dicamba

Farmer awarded $265 million in dicamba drift trial: 2,000 more farmers could file lawsuits

Tested Clean certification aims to differentiate organic and conventional foods in the market

New certification program aims to highlight organic farming and food “heroes” who are going the extra mile to eliminate glyphosate residues from their products

Glyphosate-free certification explodes as residues detected in water, popular foods, and people

Glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup herbicide, grabbed major attention in 2015 when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research classified it as a “probable human carcinogen.” News grew worse from there: lawsuits over Roundup-caused cancer brought millions of dollars in settlements; glyphosate residues were discovered in popular oat breakfast cereals (even organic), […]

Glyphosate herbicide: threat to human and animal health and the environment

By Lauren Sandford Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s signature weed killer, Roundup. Discovered to be an herbicide by organic chemist John E. Franz in 1970, glyphosate has the ability to effectively kill unwanted weeds and overgrowth from root to tip. Though Roundup, a chemical cocktail which uses glyphosate as its main ingredient, and […]