Well, it’s not the lawn, exactly, but the country’s most widely used weed killer that French scientists say also kills human cells and may cause miscarriages, abnormal fetal development and low birth weight babies.
The new findings intensify a debate about so-called “inerts” — the solvents, preservatives, surfactants and other substances that manufacturers add to pesticides.
France’s University of Caen, decided to turn their microscopes on various ingredients in Roundup
Their conclusion: the inert ones increased the toxic effect Roundup has on human cells.
“more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself – a finding the researchers call ‘astonishing,’”
But controversies over so-called inert ingredients have erupted in Argentina, Croatia and Japan
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