Judges Scrap ‘Flawed’ Health Portion of EPA Glyphosate Approval (1)

The EPA will have to take a closer look at the human health impacts of the herbicide glyphosate, according to a ruling issued by circuit judges on Friday.

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel vacated the human-health portion of an Environmental Protection Agency interim decision that deems the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup free from “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

The agency issued “flawed” reasoning that the chemical is “unlikely” to cause cause cancer, at odds with its own cancer guidelines and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, according to the ...