EPA Draft Risk Assessments for Glyphosate Released (and Update!)

Update:

New! Registration Review; Draft Human Health and/or Ecological Risk Assessments for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
(EPA Notice, Federal Register; February 27, 2018)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/02/27/2018-03986/registration-review-draft-human-health-andor-ecological-risk-assessments-for-several-pesticides

  Federal Register Notice for EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0720; FRL-9973-07

       https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-02-27/pdf/2018-03986.pdf

N. B.: Please note that Glyphosate Case 0178, Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361, is located on the aforementioned new Federal Register Notice docket number as the fourth listed pesticide on page 8478 under the following title: 

“TABLE – DRAFT ASSESSMENTS BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR 

PUBLIC COMMENT – Continued” 

Selected Glyphosate Documentation:

Registration Review – Preliminary Ecological Risk for Glyphosate and its Salts
Glyphosate (CAS 1071-83-6)
N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine
(September 8, 2015)
https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361-0077&contentType=pdf

Revised Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of Carcinogenic Potential
(December 12, 2017)
https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361-0073&contentType=pdf

          “Comments must be received on or before

April 30, 2018″

               (Retrieved from Federal Register Notice under “DATES”)

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EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessments for Glyphosate                                      (Pesticides, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; December 18, 2017)  https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/epa-releases-draft-risk-assessments-glyphosate

“The draft risk assessments and supporting documents will be available in glyphosate’s registration review docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361 on www.regulations.gov in early 2018. EPA will open a 60-day public comment period for the draft risk assessments, evaluate the comments received, and consider any potential risk management options for this herbicide.” 

Selected Research Articles:

New!  Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy and shortened gestational length:  a prospective Indiana birth cohort study  (PARVEZ et al., 2018)

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12940-018-0367-0

Association between Cancer and Environmental Exposure to Glyphosate
(AVILA-VAZQUEZ et al., 2017)
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/IJCM_2017022015474710.pdf

Assessment of the level of damage to the genetic material of children exposed to pesticides in the province of Córdoba
(BERNARDI et al., 2015)
http://www.scielo.org.ar/pdf/aap/v113n2/en_v113n2a09.pdf

Glyphosate-base herbicides are toxic and endocrine disruptors in human cell lines
(GASNIER et al., 2009)
http://media.newsvoice.se/2016/08/ML14345A568-glyphosate-study-2009.pdf

Video Documentary:

Close Up: The Sick Children of Argentina   (Deutsche Welle Documentary; December 22, 2017)

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

Albert EINSTEIN