I am curious about your technical qualifications. What is your background with regard to training in toxicology and health risk assessment? Most of the comments are not relevant to the issue. Apparently you disagree with the judgments of WHO and the responsible regulatory agencies from many countries. By the way, glyphosate and most other pesticides have very extensive data bases that are used in the determinations and updating of their registrations, almost approaching pharmaceuticals in depth. The registrations are periodically reviewed and additional data are often required on toxicology, occurrence, exposure, environmental effects, etc , if the registration is to be maintained. Many old pesticides registrations have been cancelled based upon unresolved questions and risk benefit balances. Glyphosate happens to be a pesticide that has a huge data base supporting its use and a very substantial consensus exists on its safety and low risk among the many experts in countries that have reviewed the data.
Published by Joseph Cotruvo, President at Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, Water , Environment and Public Health
I am curious about your technical qualifications. What is your background with regard to training in toxicology and health risk assessment? Most of the comments are not relevant to the issue. Apparently you disagree with the judgments of WHO and the responsible regulatory agencies from many countries. By the way, glyphosate and most other pesticides have very extensive data bases that are used in the determinations and updating of their registrations, almost approaching pharmaceuticals in depth. The registrations are periodically reviewed and additional data are often required on toxicology, occurrence, exposure, environmental effects, etc , if the registration is to be maintained. Many old pesticides registrations have been cancelled based upon unresolved questions and risk benefit balances. Glyphosate happens to be a pesticide that has a huge data base supporting its use and a very substantial consensus exists on its safety and low risk among the many experts in countries that have reviewed the data.