"1. RETRACTED: The study that served as the cornerstone of regulators’ assessment of glyphosate’s safety, leading to EPA approvals of glyphosate-based herbicides, has now been retracted. It has been revealed that the study, “Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans,” was ghostwritten by Monsanto. The Editor-in-Chief of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, which published the study in 2000, cites these reasons for its retraction:
- The study’s conclusions regarding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate are based solely on unpublished studies from Monsanto.
- The authors did not include multiple long-term chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies that had already been published at the time of writing their review in 1999.
- Litigation has revealed that employees of Monsanto contributed to the writing of the study without proper acknowledgment as co-authors. The failure to disclose the involvement of Monsanto personnel in the writing process compromises the academic independence of the presented findings and conclusions drawn in the article regarding carcinogenicity.
- The authors of the study did not disclose that they were financially compensated by Monsanto, raising significant ethical concerns, and calling into question the academic objectivity of the authors.
The sole surviving author of the study, Gary M. Williams, has refused to respond to the Editor-in Chief of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology." ~ ToxinFreeUSA.org
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