When Roundup Isn’t Roundup: Clearing up the confusion …
WEBAug 23, 2024 · Roundup has been one of the most used herbicides for many different weed control applications. Roundup, with the active ingredient glyphosate, was first registered with the EPA in 1974. When Roundup went off patent in 2000, glyphosate started being sold under many different names.
Thailand Faces U.S. Pushback Over Ban of Roundup Pesticide (2)
WEBOct 29, 2019 · The ban on glyphosate, commonly sold as Roundup, as well as the pesticides paraquat and chlorpyrifos, will take effect Dec. 1, an official in the pesticide regulatory division at the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives told Bloomberg Environment Oct. 29.
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U.S. criticises Vietnam ban of glyphosate herbicide imports
WEBApr 11, 2019 · Glyphosate, the chemical contained in Bayer AG's best-selling weed killer Roundup, is the target of thousands of lawsuits in the United States alleging exposure to it causes cancer.
Roundup (herbicide) - Wikipedia
WEBRoundup is a brand name of herbicide originally produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Prior to the late-2010s formulations, it used broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicides. [2] As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides still represented about 10 percent of Monsanto's revenue despite competition from Chinese producers of other ...
PANAP welcomes immediate ban on glyphosate imports in …
WEBMar 28, 2019 · PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) welcomes the ban of two Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) recently announced by the governments of Vietnam and Malaysia: the immediate ban on new imports of glyphosate in Vietnam, and the total ban of paraquat in Malaysia starting 2020.
WEBIsrael: A court order stopped aerial spraying of Roundup on Bedouin farmers’ crops in the Negev region of Israel between 2002 and 2004, after a coalition of Arab human rights groups and Israeli scientists reported high death rates of livestock, and a high incidence of miscarriages and disease amongst the people (Antoniou et al 2010).
Why isn't Round-Up banned? - Popular Science
WEBJan 13, 2022 · When Monsanto first marketed Roundup in 1974, the company sold it as a breakthrough tool for agriculture: an herbicide that was safe for the environment and for humans.
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Farmworkers And Conservationists Ask Court To Remove Monsanto's Roundup ...
WEB28 December 2020, San Francisco, CA: Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed the opening arguments and evidence in its litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) re-approval of glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’s “Roundup” pesticides.