Top 20 Things You Should Know About RoundUp, Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, Cancer, and Monsanto
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RoundUp And Injury
Adverse side effects that have been allegedly linked to the use of glyphosate products including Monsanto’s Roundup include:
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Leukemia
- Brain cancer
- Lung cancer
- Testicular cancer
- Thyroid cancer
- Lymphoma
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Nerve damage
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Diabetes
- Infertility
- Birth defects
What About Science? Does A Legal Verdict Uphold A Scientific Truth?
Since the verdict in Johnson v. Monsanto, the topic of glyphosate cancer risk has become prominent in media reports. Following the ruling, the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) published a report alleging high levels of glyphosate found in cereals commonly used by children, such as Quaker Old Fashioned Oats or Cheerios.
Combined with the news of the verdict, this made for a powerful one-two punch of glyphosate fear, with outlets such as CBS reporting several food products showed “[glyphosate] levels higher than what some scientists consider safe for children.” While “some scientists” may consider the levels presented by EWG to be dangerous for children, EWG’s methods are controversial and their findings largely unrelated to the ruling in Johnson v. Monsanto.
The jury in the Johnson v. Monsanto case had specific questions to answer, and none of them involved determining carcinogenicity from glyphosate exposure in food. In point of technical fact, the jury was not considering glyphosate solely, but the formulations contained in Roundup Pro and Ranger Pro to which he was exposed in high levels as part of his job — which involve much higher levels than would be found in food as residue, and which involves different routes of exposure than food.
Supporters of the jury’s decision argue that this is a landmark case against the much-maligned Monsanto corporation, demonstrating both the company’s negligence and their willingness to hide evidence of harm in favor of profit. They argue the juries decision affirms their contention that glyphosate is unequivocally carcinogenic. According to Johnson’s lawyers, Monsanto is facing more than 4,000 similar cases across the US.
While a jury may have ruled with certainty that Roundup Pro and Roundup Ranger caused Dewanye Johnson’s cancer, scientists — unfettered by the legal rules of evidence or the pressure to render timely verdicts — continue to have their doubts.
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Scientific Studies Showing Links Between Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Roundup
Over the last 30 years, there has been an increase in reported cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a major scientific review published in 2014. The study suggests that chemical pesticides and herbicides—particularly glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer—are a major contributing factor to the rising number of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases.
The Roundup cancer study, titled, “Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Occupational Exposure to Agricultural Pesticide Chemical Groups and Active Ingredients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The paper focused on reviews and meta-analyses of nearly 30 years worth of epidemiological research examining the link between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and occupational exposure to 80 pesticide active ingredients and 21 chemical groups. The study notes that pesticides are often grouped according to the type of pests that they control; for example, fungicides are used to kill fungi, insecticides to kill insects, and herbicides to kill weeds and plants.
The 2014 glyphosate cancer study attempted to reconcile an apparent trend among farm workers who have low mortality rates but high reported incidents of cancer. Researchers believe that exposure to Roundup may best explain this contradiction, as the Roundup cancer study found that being exposed to glyphosate doubled an individual’s risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Aside from demonstrating that pesticide exposure in occupational agricultural settings is an important determinant of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the study also found that glyphosate exposure was linked to a common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype, B-cell lymphoma.
A number of older Roundup cancer studies researching occupational glyphosate exposure in Sweden, the U.S. and Canada found increased incidences of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, even after adjustments for other pesticides.
- International Journal of Cancer (2008) – This Swedish study found that glyphosate exposure doubled the risk of individuals developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma within 10 years.
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2003) – An American study examining thousands of farm workers in the Midwest, found increased incidences of non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnoses associated with exposure to glyphosate.
- Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (2001) – Researchers in Canada found a dose response relationship between exposure to glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
What Is Glyphosate??
Glyphosate is the main chemical used in RoundUp Weed Killer. Roundup is the most widely used herbicide in the world by far.
In March 2015, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said the key ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
Several studies of glyphosate and cancer are ongoing, and more are coming out each year. Just last year, a review of studies looking at the ties between glyphosate and cancer concluded that in the low amounts of that people are actually exposed to, glyphosate “do[es] not represent a public concern.”
Conversely, the new evidence could come out strongly against glyphosate and suggest that it’s incredibly harmful. As Stevens points out, new evidence dramatically changed the public perception of another popular product which was initially labeled cancerous — a zero-calorie sweetener called saccharin, which is sold under the brand name Sweet’ N Low.
In the 1980s, any product containing the sweetener was required to carry a warning label saying that it was “determined to cause cancer.” But the science was flawed: the rats that had been used in the studies were especially prone to bladder cancer, and the findings did not apply to people. So in 2016, the sweetener was removed from a list of cancer-causing ingredients.
“For the herbicide glyphosate, there was limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans for non-Hodgkin lymphoma,” the report states.
But Monsanto has long maintained that Roundup does not cause cancer, and that the IARC report is greatly outnumbered by studies saying glyphosate is safe.
“More than 800 scientific studies, the US EPA, the National Institutes of Health and regulators around the world have concluded that glyphosate is safe for use and does not cause cancer,” said Partridge, Monsanto’s vice president of strategy.
He highlighted the Agricultural Health Study, which studied the effects of pesticides and glyphosate products on farmers and their spouses from 1993 to 2013.
“Many had already been using Roundup and other formulated products (since) it first came on the market,” Partridge said.
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