Does glyphosate cause cancer - Expert group to address diverging assessments within the WHO
| Main Author: | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment |
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| Format: | Report |
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, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/580754 |
Daftar Isi:
- Following a review of all available studies, glyphosate, an active substance used in pesticides, has been assessed as non-carcinogenic by the competent national, European and other international institutions for health assessment including the WHO/FAO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). At a meeting of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2015 in Lyon, the participating experts classified glyphosate as a carcinogenic substance in Group 2A (“probably carcinogenic to humans”), based on “limited evidence in humans” and “sufficient evidence in animals”. This classification was published in a short report in the "Lancet" journal on 20 March 2015. As Germany is the “Rapporteur Member State” in the European Union (EU) for the active substance glyphosate, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is issuing its comments on this classification by IARC based on the published short report. The BfR will perform a thorough review of the classification issued by IARC once the monograph becomes available. According to an IARC notification of 29 May 2015, the scheduled publication date has been brought forward to July 2015. As neither the BfR nor any of the other assessment authorities worldwide currently have access to this report, it is not yet possible to comprehensively assess the reasons given for the conclusions drawn by IARC. The WHO recently created an “ad hoc expert task force“ to consider possible reasons for the different assessments of the data by IARC and the JMPR. The Taskforce should report back to JMPR in September 2015 for further discussion and action. This process is known as a scientific divergence procedure within the WHO.
- DE; en; efsa-focal-point@bfr.bund.de