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EWG Asked People If They’d Like To Eat Cereal with Monsanto’s Weedkiller in It.
Analysis: EPA Ignored Scientific Research Showing Monsanto’s Glyphosate Causes Cancer
A new analysis from the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Sciences Europe documents the diametrically different approaches the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health...
Tests Reveal More Weed Killer Than Some Vitamins in Kids’ Cereals
Roundup for Breakfast, Part 2: In New Tests, Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled
FDA Glyphosate Testing Conspicuously Skips Oats, Wheat Products
The Food and Drug Administration failed to include oats and wheat products in its glyphosate testing program, leaving Americans largely in the dark about their exposure through food to the active...
Food Companies, EWG Petition EPA for Stringent Limits on Glyphosate in Oats
The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farm, MOM's Organic Market, Nature's Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co...
House GOP Seeks to Scuttle Playground Bans on Glyphosate
EWG Responds to General Mills and Quaker Oats: ‘Legal Is Not the Same as Safe’
The Environmental Working Group is disappointed that General Mills and the Quaker Oats Company have brushed aside consumer health concerns raised by new research that found the cancer-causing weed...
Roundup for Breakfast? Weed Killer in Landmark Cancer Verdict Found in Kids’ Cereals, Other Oat-Based Foods
Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison in Monsanto's Roundup, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by EWG. These new...
Study Finds Surge in Exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup Over Past Two Decades
In a Milestone, California Lists Monsanto’s Glyphosate as a Carcinogen
In an action with national and global implications, today California officially listed glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller, as a chemical known to cause cancer under the...
EWG Urges California to Protect Kids from Monsanto’s Cancer-Causing Herbicide
California's landmark health guideline for Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate is a huge step forward, but falls short of protecting children's health, according to evidence assembled by EWG scientists.
Study: Monsanto’s Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer in History
Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as “Roundup,” is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally...
Obama Administration Reverses Approval of Dow AgroSciences Weed-Killer Over Environmental Risks
In a stunning reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has retreated from its earlier decision to let Dow AgroSciences market a new weed killer, branded Enlist Duo, which the company...
Dolores Huerta and EWG React to Lawsuit Against Monsanto over Cancer-Causing Weed Killer
A farm worker and a horticultural assistant who both developed cancer after being exposed to Monsanto's glyphosate weed killer have filed separate lawsuits against the company.
Anti-GMO Labeling Bill Just Keeps Getting DARKer
This week the House Agriculture Committee is expected to mark up and vote on a bill that would take away the right of states to label food with genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs. According to...
Dow Crop Chemical Labeled "Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans"
The decision by an organization of the world's leading cancer experts to classify the herbicide 2,4-D as a possible carcinogen underscores the risk posed by the U.S. government's recent approval of 2...
French Government Takes Steps to Protect its Citizens From Monsanto's Weed Killer
By restricting the sale of glyphosate in garden centers, the French government is taking steps to protect its citizens from a weed killer that the World Health Organization categorizes as "probably...
Toxic Weed Killer Found in Breast Milk, Infant Formula
The widely-used herbicide glyphosate, now classified as a probably carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization, has been found in a number of items, including honey, breast milk and infant...
EWG Calls on Monsanto to Retract Remarks on WHO Weed-Killer Report
In response to the World Health Organization's decision to classify the weed-killer glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” Monsanto's top executive pulled out the rhetorical machine guns...