Source: earthopensource.org

The facts are these:

  • The Pesticide Industry has known from its own studies since the 1980s that glyphosate causes malformations in experimental animals at high doses
  • The Pesticide Industry has known since 1993 that these effects also occur at lower and mid doses
  • The German government has known since at least 1998 that glyphosate causes malformations
  • The EU Commission’s expert scientific review panel knew in 1999 that glyphosate causes malformations
  • The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was the year it signed off on the current approval of glyphosate.

But this information was not made public.