Cancer Risk from Pesticides Equivalent to Smoking – New US Study

by Sustainable Pulse - 6 August 2024

Pesticides have long been established as potentially health damaging, with some of them linked to cancer. In a populational US-wide study that considered not only farmers who actively use pesticides but communities as a whole, researchers contextualized cancer risk associated with pesticide use and smoking....

Sustainable Agriculture

Glyphosate Levels Decline in Oats

pre-harvest oats

After years of being detected at alarming levels, the pesticide glyphosate is being found at lower levels, on average, in cereal and other oat-based products that children and adults enjoy, according to tests by the American nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG), GMWatch reported. Source: GMWatch EWG believes its calls for an end to the pre-harvest use of glyphosate on oats may have helped...