US House Committee Launches Investigation into EPA Glyphosate Cover Up

Posted on May 8 2016 - 10:20am by Sustainable Pulse

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology has launched an investigation into the ‘mistaken’ release of a draft report by the U.S. EPA on the World’s most used herbicide, glyphosate.

The EPA ‘mistakenly’ published a draft report online on April 29 by the Cancer Assessment Review Committee (CARC). The report stated that glyphosate is ‘not likely to be carcinogenic to humans’, which is in direct contradiction to the World Health Organization cancer agency IARC’s much more comprehensive report, which stated in 2015 that glyphosate is a ”probable human carcinogen”.

An EPA assessment on the herbicide atrazine was also posted on the agency’s website on April 29 but subsequently taken down. The documents are available here. The assessment said atrazine was found to cause reproductive harm to birds and mammals.

In a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on Wednesday, committee chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, announced his committee is launching an investigation into the matter.

“…EPA’s removal of this report and the subsequent backtracking on its finality raises questions about the agency’s motivation in providing a fair assessment of glyphosate — an assessment based on the scientific analysis conducted by CARC,” Smith said in the letter.

“Furthermore, EPA’s apparent mishandling of this report may shed light on larger systemic problems occurring at the agency.”

Smith has asked EPA to provide “documents and communications” from January 1, 2015, to the present between agency personnel on the glyphosate assessment to the committee by May 18.

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According to expert Sustainable Pulse sources in the U.S. the EPA allegedly attempted “to take the legal pressure off  the pesticide industry and specifically large producers of glyphosate-based herbicides such as Monsanto,” by releasing the CARC draft report.

The legal pressure on glyphosate has come in the form of many lawsuits in the U.S.  that have been started against Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (a glyphosate-based herbicide), since the IARC classification of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen last year.

Monsanto has repeatedly asked regulators to publicly protect their number one product, however the EPA has not been able to meet Monsanto’s timeline for a full re-licensing of glyphosate, which is now expected later in 2016 or even early 2017.

Sustainable Pulse Director Henry Rowlands stated; “The EPA’s ‘mistaken’ release of the main part of  their report that is designed to protect the pesticide industry seems rather a strange coincidence.

“Glyphosate is now on the agenda for consumers and farmers across the World. The discovery of the herbicide in our bodies and our food at hormone hacking levels is very alarming. The EPA should be protecting us all by providing a fully independent scientific analysis of the chemical. However, this is not what is happening and the EPA is again working against public health protection,” Rowlands concluded.

Glyphosate: The Hormone Hacker

Stone-Age industry funded science suggested that the higher the dose of a chemical the more dangerous it was, however modern independent science has discovered that many toxic chemicals have as much or more of an influence on our health at low doses– these chemicals are known as hormone hackers (endocrine disruptors).

A study from March 2015 stated that the health costs to the European Union of hormone hacking chemicals is over $ 150 Billion per year! The study stated that lower IQ, adult obesity and 5% or more of autism cases are all linked to exposure to endocrine disruptors.

Glyphosate is likely to be one of these hormone hacking chemicals according to independent science. Find more information on this here.

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8 Comments so far. Feel free to join this conversation.

  1. Karen Scribner May 9, 2016 at 02:21 - Reply

    Why does roundup need to cause cancer to be a problem? What about gut and neurotransmitter issues? And other I can’t think of right now?

  2. Bill May 10, 2016 at 17:44 - Reply

    Gut and neurotransmitter issues or anything else you can think of is not as important as corporate profits according to the US EPA. These issues you describing are considered externalities or collateral damage.

  3. Sebastian May 12, 2016 at 08:46 - Reply

    The EPA and Monsanto are making crimes against all mankind With Their products, and greedy desire for profit!!! SHAME!

  4. Donald Sutherland May 14, 2016 at 23:00 - Reply

    And where is full transparency of the glyphosate industry studies the EPA is still standing by? The European Commission what a full not “sanitized” release of these studies claiming glyphosate is as safe as table salt ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/cwt/files/letter_1.pdf

  5. Donald Sutherland May 14, 2016 at 23:05 - Reply

    The media has missed a big part of the Glyphosate mess. Here’s my report Is Glyphosate Legal for your review.
    www.longlifefarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Is-Glyphosate-Legal.pdf

  6. Dan Murphy May 17, 2016 at 00:29 - Reply

    How does the government justify the slow poisoning of mankind? When did it become “ok” to reap a fantastic harvest of cash year after year- as you kill off bee populations and deny the fact; pesticides you peddle are the primary cause? Is this Monsanto’s way of sanctioning the competition?! EPA has been a rubber stamp for these assassins of nature for too long. Anyone associated with this absurd and vile violation of the public trust – should be imprisoned for life.

    • jim May 18, 2016 at 00:00 - Reply

      I agree, this Monsanto / Roundup disaster is absurd. Reads just like DDT and what it did to the environment and those exposed to it.

  7. jim May 17, 2016 at 23:57 - Reply

    When did Monsanto profits become more important than children’s health and safety ?

    Jim – Arkansas

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