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My understanding is that the EU is, or has already, going to label roundup as cancer causing. And California is now doing that. So what are they basing that b

My understanding is that the EU is, or has already, going to label roundup as cancer causing. And California is now doing that. So what are they basing that ban on? If there is no evidence why would they do that? Has the EU or California made a practice of labeling stuff as cancer causing without any evidence? That seems pretty weird if that's true. Thanks for the tone of your answer, BTW.

stinos 9y ago
So what are they basing that ban on? I assume things like this: Kathryn Guyton, a senior toxicologist in the monographs programme at the IARC and one of the authors of the study, says, “In the case of glyphosate, because the evidence in experimental animals was sufficient and the evidence in humans was limited, that would put the agent into group 2A.” From http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2815%2970134-8/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-20..., thanks to https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18329/does-roundup-harm-mammals https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18329/does-roun...
Oletros 9y ago
> My understanding is that the EU is, or has already, going to label roundup as cancer causing. Well, the EU commission has to decide but the ECHA study concluded that it is not carcinogen https://echa.europa.eu/-/glyphosate-not-classified-as-a-carcinogen-by-echa https://echa.europa.eu/-/glyphosate-not-classified-as-a-carc...