Letter to the editor: Toxicity of Roundup and glyphosate

Journal or Publishing Institution: Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Date of Publication: 05/09/2012

Study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224931268_Letter_to_the_Editor_Toxicity_of_Roundup_and_Glyphosate

Author(s): Belle, R., Marc, J., Morales, J., Cormier, P. and Mulner-Lorillon, O.

Article Type: Journal Publication

Abstract:

To the editor: The authors of the bibliographic review “Developmental and Reproductive Outcomes in Humans and Animals After Glyphosate Exposure: A Critical Analysis” (Williams et al. 2012) intensively analyzed five of our articles concerning the cellular toxicity of Roundup, other glyphosate-containing products, and glyphosate (Marc et al. 2002; 2003; 2004a; 2004b; 2005). Although they admit that we have demonstrated Roundup toxicity on embryonic individual cells, they minimize our experimental evidence that glyphosate plays a role in the toxicity and discredit our findings.

Their article contains several errors about our experiments that we shall not detail. All scientific readers can refer to our original publications. We intend to focus on two main points, the first about the scientific context of our investigations curiously absent from the authors review and the second about the contested environmental significance of our findings…

Keywords: herbicides, pesticides, Roundup, glyphosate, toxicity

Citation:

Belle, R., Marc, J., Morales, J., Cormier, P. and Mulner-Lorillon, O., 2012. Letter to the editor: Toxicity of roundup and glyphosate. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 15(4), pp.233-237.

Category:

• Health effects
• Environmental effects
• Pesticide use

Record ID: 160