The US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement "false and misleading."
California decided in 2017 that the pesticides must carry labeling to reflect the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer finding two years earlier that is was "probably carcinogenic."
"Although it is difficult to quantify, lobbying probably influenced the outcome of some of these evaluations and media coverage and led US government officials to question supporting the IARC/WHO."
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