27.06.2017 | permalink
Californian regulators have decided that the popular weed killer Roundup must be sold with a label warning that it's known to cause cancer. It is the first state in the US to do so.
As of July 7, the weed killer's main ingredient - glyphosate - will appear on a list of potentially cancerous chemicals and a year later the listing could come with warning labels on the product, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday.
State health regulators must also decide if there's a high enough amount of the chemical in Roundup to pose a risk to human health.
"We can't say for sure," said Sam Delson, a spokesman for OEHHA.
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer said that it is "probably carcinogenic" in a controversial ruling in 2015.
