Conflicts of interest have already plagued the newly released glyphosate risk assessment by the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), as the Guardian reported on Wednesday, however, the total irrelevance of the report to modern science and to Europe has now also come into focus.

Irrelevant for Modern Science

The JMPR announced on Monday that glyphosate is  “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet”.

It may however surprise readers to find out that this announcement was made without one single regulatory or industry glyphosate study ever having been performed at a real-life dietary exposure level (usually under 1000 ppb).

This is a huge hole in the risk assessment process for glyphosate, as low levels of the herbicide are very likely to hack hormones even more than high levels and hormone hacking chemicals are often carcinogens.

Industry funded science from the dark ages suggested that the higher the dose of a chemical the more dangerous it was, however modern independent science has discovered that many toxic chemicals have as much or even more of an influence on our health at low doses– these chemicals are known as hormone hackers (endocrine disruptors).

A study from March 2015 stated that the health costs to the European Union of hormone hacking chemicals is over $150 Billion per year! The study stated that lower IQ, adult obesity and 5% or more of autism cases are all linked to exposure to endocrine disruptors.

Glyphosate is likely to be one of these hormone hacking chemicals at real-life exposure levels down to 0.1 PPB or below according to independent science.