A panel of scientists is disputing a World Health Organization report that labels the main ingredient of Roundup as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
Reuters reports the 16-member panel presented its findings to the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis this week.
The company that assembled the panel was paid to do so by Monsanto.
The group said that the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer misinterpreted or incorrectly weighted some of the data it reviewed and ignored other data before classifying glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, according to an abstract of its findings.
The panel’s assessment is similar to that of the European Food Safety Authority, which last month said glyphosate was not likely carcinogenic.
