BERMUDA- WEED KILLER ROUNDUP BANNED OVER CANCER FEARS

Farmers on the island of Bermuda are supporting their government’s decision to ban the importation of the popular weed killer Roundup following a study which linked the herbicide to cancer in humans.
Bermudian government officials announced yesterday they are suspending imports of Monsanto’s Roundup after a study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded ingredients in the herbicide to be “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
“This description is used when there is limited evidence of cancer causing effect on humans and sufficient evidence of it in experimental animals,” the Bermudian Ministry of Health said in a statement yesterday.
“Effective immediately, all importers of glyphosate/Roundup will be notified that the approval for all glyphosate products has been suspended, pending the continuing assessment of the emerging research,” health authorities said.
Health officials will continue looking into the agency’s findings over the next six months, but said they would honour orders placed before May 11 and will give importers who wish to receive “small quantities of low concentrations of Roundup” a two week grace period to do so.
The IARC in March concluded “there is significant evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.”
The National Pesticide Information Center has also found “symptoms of erosion of the gastrointestinal tract, dysphagia… and gastrointestinal haemorrhage” among 80 cases of intentional Roundup ingestion, seven of which resulted in death.
A recent study published in Environmental Health also found glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and other pesticides were primarily responsible for the rise in chronic kidney disease among farmers in Sri Lanka. (Source what’s up Caribbean)

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