Glyphosate not classified as a carcinogen by ECHA

The European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) announced on the 15 March 2017 that it had agreed to maintain the current harmonised classification of glyphosate as a substance causing serious eye damage and being toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects.

However, RAC concluded that the available scientific evidence did not meet the criteria to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen, as a mutagen or as toxic for reproduction.

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