The use of every herbicide on food crops in the United States is evaluated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against a standard of reasonable certainty that the use would cause no ...

Glyphosate is the world’s most widely produced herbicide, by volume ... The IARC classifies compounds on a scale of decreasing certainty: group 1 is for agents that are definitely carcinogenic ...

The herbicide and its breakdown products are linked ... The agency’s decision “provides much needed regulatory certainty for farmers during a time when few things are certain,” Gary Marshall ...