Is Roundup dangerous? Or is it safe? You’ve likely heard of Roundup either because it’s a popular, inexpensive, effective herbicide or because recent safety concerns have developed, and its use is becoming a hotly debated topic. So which is it? Dangerous or safe? Let’s look at the ...
Roundup is aherbicide. It’s available in a bottle for home application and it’s also widely used by farmers and by cities for weed control. Itsprimary active ingredient is glyphosate. But it also contains other harmful ingredients, like surfactants to help the glyphosate cling to the plants....
“Roundup, with its active ingredient glyphosate, is a highly effective herbicide used around the world and is undoubtedly important to large-scale agriculture. The debate continues, however, on the level of toxicity and carcinogenicity of the chemical in question.” Shannon L. Fitzgerald, Pharm.D...
An improved version of the old reliable Roundup herbicide was launched by Sinochem Philippines last Wednesday, June 26, at a demo farm at UP Los Banos in Laguna.This is the RoundupTurboplus which has been registered with the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) for use in corn, banana, ...
Despite health concerns, paraquat continues to be a popular herbicide in California and other parts of the United States. Some hope to see it banned.
This is an ingredient found in commonly used herbicide(除草剂) brands such as Roundup or Gallup. Slug pellets(鼻涕虫杀虫剂) also seemed to have an impact on bird sightings; in gardens where Slug pellets were used,house sparrow numbers were down by almost 40% . Prof. Dave Goulson, of the...
Monsanto’s most famous herbicide Roundup has recently been put in the eye of a mediatic storm because it seems that many international agencies can’t decide whether its main ingredient, glyphosate, is carcinogenic or not. Recently, it was classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans (Group ...
Roundup is the brand name of a systemic, broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicide originally produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Glyphosate
The herbicide glyphosate is the most widely used active ingredient in pesticides globally. Residues have been found in people, livestock, food and animal f
Living near farmland can significantly increase people's exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, new research shows. This chemical has been connected to health concerns, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a higher risk of preterm birth. ...