Failure to Regulate: Pesticide Data Fraud Comes Home to Roost

[Judi Lynn]

Failure to Regulate: Pesticide Data Fraud Comes Home to Roost
Thursday, 09 April 2015 00:00
By Carol Van Strum, Truthout | News Analysis

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can hardly be surprised by news that Roundup and other best-selling pesticides cause cancer. The EPA originally registered atrazine, Roundup (glyphosate), 2,4-D and hundreds of other poisons based on fraudulent or nonexistent industry safety studies, their real effects concealed by the EPA and industry for 50 years. Now the fraud and lies are coming home to roost.

The news is unlikely to prompt the EPA to ban Roundup or any other toxin, though.
"The agency has a very poor track record in protecting us from dangerous chemicals," says Dr. Brian Moench. "In fact, in 2013, well after much of the alarming research on glyphosate had already surfaced, the EPA actually increased the 'acceptable' levels of glyphosate contamination of numerous foods, anywhere from twice for soybeans to 25 times higher for carrots."

What the EPA can hide under an industry-crafted pesticide law, however, it can be forced to reveal under the Endangered Species Act. A vanishing West Coast frog, already better protected from pesticides than humans are, may undo decades of EPA and industry cover-ups through court-ordered review of long-secret toxicity studies.

Best known as Mark Twain's "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," the California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) is California's largest native frog and official state amphibian. It also is one of the very few freshwater species known to sing love songs underwater.

More:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30097-failure-to-regulate-pesticide-data-fraud-comes-home-to-roost

[happyslug]

1. Roundup (glyphosate), and 2,4-D are NOT Pesticides, they are HERBICIDES

i.e. Roundup (glyphosate), and 2,4-D are designed to kill PLANTS not Insects. That does NOT make the rest of the article invalid (including the fact both appears to be killing frogs and other animals), but at times you have to be careful for someone will jump all over that irrelevant mistake to attack all of your comments.