Glyphosate unlikely to pose cancer risk through diet, WHO says

“Glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet,” a World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization panel has concluded.

The Joint WHO/FAO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) came to the same conclusion about malathion and diazinon, two other pesticides evaluated along with glyphosate by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in March 2015.

IARC concluded that all three chemicals were probable human carcinogens. The glyphosate finding has since become a rallying cry for glyphosate foes and an object of derision for Monsanto and other pro-glyphosate forces.