April 2, 2017 - The following was sent to me by Credo by email today. Please read and take action:
Stunning new documents unsealed by a federal judge suggest that Monsanto worked directly with
federal regulators to hide the health risks of and manipulate the science behind its best-selling herbicide,
RoundUp.
The documents reveal that Monsanto pressured Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to not
publicly release information on the cancer risks of glyphosate, the main ingredient in RoundUp, ghost-
wrote research for the EPA and worked with a senior official at the agency to quash a federal review of
the chemical.
These documents suggest an unprecedented level of collusion between the EPA and Monsanto
to cover up evidence that RoundUp is a likely carcinogen. The Office of Inspector General of the
EPA, an independent office tasked with investigating fraud and abuse in the agency, must immediately
launch an investigation to hold Monsanto and all EPA employees involved accountable.
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared glyphosate a probable carcinogen, which
spurred a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds victims who developed cancer after being exposed
to the chemical. These newly uncovered documents reveal that months before the WHO’s determination,
an EPA official tipped off Monsanto to the upcoming ruling in an effort to aid the agricultural giant’s
public relations campaign. The official promised the company that he would attempt to beat back an
upcoming review of glyphosate by the Department of Health and Human Services, saying “If I can kill
this, I should get a medal.” HHS subsequently never completed the review.
Unsealed documents also suggest that a Monsanto executive gave his employees the go-ahead to
ghostwrite favorable research on glyphosate and later attribute the studies to academics by merely
placing their names on the research.
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