Unsealed Court Documents Raise Questions On Safety Of Monsanto Weed Killer.

reports a federal court unsealed documents that raise questions about the safety of Roundup, as well as “the research practices of its manufacturer, the chemical giant Monsanto.” The documents, which “included Monsanto’s internal emails and email traffic between the company and federal regulators,” suggest the company “had ghostwritten research” into glyphosate’s carcinogenic properties “that was later attributed to academics.” The documents also suggest that a senior EPA official “had worked to quash a review of Roundup’s main ingredient, glyphosate, that was to have been conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html