Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Christopher J Portier; Bruce K Armstrong; Bruce C Baguley; Xaver Baur; Igor Belyaev; Robert Bellé; Fiorella Belpoggi; Annibale Biggeri; Maarten C Bosland; Paolo Bruzzi; Lygia Therese Budnik; Merete D Bugge; Kathleen Burns; Gloria M Calaf; David O Carpenter; Hillary M Carpenter; Lizbeth López-Carrillo; Richard Clapp; Pierluigi Cocco; Dario Consonni; Pietro Comba; Elena Craft; Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie; Devra Davis; Paul A Demers; Anneclaire J De Roos; Jamie DeWitt; Francesco Forastiere; Jonathan H Freedman; Lin Fritschi; Caroline Gaus; Julia M Gohlke; Marcel Goldberg; Eberhard Greiser; Johnni Hansen; Lennart Hardell; Michael Hauptmann; Wei Huang; James Huff; Margaret O James; C W Jameson; Andreas Kortenkamp; Annette Kopp-Schneider; Hans Kromhout; Marcelo L Larramendy; Philip J Landrigan; Lawrence H Lash; Dariusz Leszczynski; Charles F Lynch; Corrado Magnani; Daniele Mandrioli; Francis L Martin; Enzo Merler; Paola Michelozzi; Lucia Miligi; Anthony B Miller; Dario Mirabelli; Franklin E Mirer; Saloshni Naidoo; Melissa J Perry; Maria Grazia Petronio; Roberta Pirastu; Ralph J Portier; Kenneth S Ramos; Larry W Robertson; Theresa Rodriguez; Martin Röösli; Matt K Ross; Deodutta Roy; Ivan Rusyn; Paulo Saldiva; Jennifer Sass; Kai Savolainen; Paul T J Scheepers; Consolato Sergi; Ellen K Silbergeld; Martyn T Smith; Bernard W Stewart; Patrice Sutton; Fabio Tateo; Benedetto Terracini; Heinz W Thielmann; David B Thomas; Harri Vainio; John E Vena; Paolo Vineis; Elisabete Weiderpass; Dennis D Weisenburger; Tracey J Woodruff; Takashi Yorifuji; Il Je Yu; Paola Zambon; Hajo Zeeb; Shu-Feng Zhou

doi:10.1136/jech-2015-207005

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Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

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Christopher J Portier Environmental Health Consultant, Thun, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce K Armstrong The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce C Baguley The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Xaver Baur Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Igor Belyaev Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Robert Bellé Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR8227, Roscoff, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Fiorella Belpoggi CesareMaltoni Cancer Research Center, Bentivoglio (Bologna), Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Annibale Biggeri Institute for Cancer Prevention and Research, University of Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maarten C Bosland University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paolo Bruzzi National Cancer Research Institute, San Martino—IST Hospital, Genoa, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lygia Therese Budnik University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Merete D Bugge STAMI, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kathleen Burns Sciencecorps, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gloria M Calaf Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David O Carpenter Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hillary M Carpenter Toxicologist, Maplewood, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lizbeth López-Carrillo National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Richard Clapp Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Pierluigi Cocco Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dario Consonni Department of Preventive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Pietro Comba Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, IstitutoSuperiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Elena Craft Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, Texas, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Devra Davis Environmental Health Trust, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA and The Hebrew University Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paul A Demers Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Anneclaire J De Roos Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jamie DeWitt Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Francesco Forastiere Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jonathan H Freedman University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lin Fritschi School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Caroline Gaus Department of Environmental Toxicology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Julia M Gohlke Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Marcel Goldberg Paris Descartes University, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Eberhard Greiser Epi.Consult GmbH, Musweiler, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Johnni Hansen Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lennart Hardell University Hospital, Orebra, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael Hauptmann Biostatistics Branch, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Wei Huang Faculty of Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Peking Univ School of Public Health, Beijing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
James Huff National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Margaret O James University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
C W Jameson CWJ Consulting, LLC, Cape Coral, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Andreas Kortenkamp Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Brunel University London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Annette Kopp-Schneider Division of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hans Kromhout Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Marcelo L Larramendy National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, National University of La Plata, Argentina PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Philip J Landrigan Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lawrence H Lash Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dariusz Leszczynski Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Charles F Lynch Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Corrado Magnani Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Daniele Mandrioli Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, Bentivoglio (Bologna), Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Francis L Martin Centre for Biophotonics, Lancaster University, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Enzo Merler Department of Prevention, Occupational Health Unit, National Health Service, Padua, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paola Michelozzi Department of Epidemiology Lazio Region, Rome, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lucia Miligi Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Unit, ISPO-Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Anthony B Miller Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dario Mirabelli Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte, Torino, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Franklin E Mirer Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, City University of New York School of Public Health, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Saloshni Naidoo School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Melissa J Perry Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maria Grazia Petronio Health and Environment-Department of Prevention, Local Health Authority-Empoli, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Roberta Pirastu Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ralph J Portier Department of Environmental Sciences, School of the Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kenneth S Ramos Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Larry W Robertson Iowa Superfund Research Program and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Theresa Rodriguez Center for Research in Health, Work and Environment (CISTA), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-León), León, Nicaragua PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Martin Röösli Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Associated Institute of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Matt K Ross College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Deodutta Roy Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ivan Rusyn Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paulo Saldiva Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jennifer Sass Natural Resources Defense Council and George Washington University, Washington DC, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kai Savolainen Nanosafety Research Centre, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paul T J Scheepers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Consolato Sergi Department of Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ellen K Silbergeld Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Martyn T Smith School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bernard W Stewart Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Patrice Sutton Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Fabio Tateo Istituto di Geosceinze e Georisorse (CNR), Padova, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Benedetto Terracini University of Torino, Torino, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Heinz W Thielmann German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg and Faculty of Pharmacy, Heidelberg University, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David B Thomas Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Harri Vainio Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John E Vena Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paolo Vineis Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Elisabete Weiderpass Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dennis D Weisenburger Department of Pathology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tracey J Woodruff Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Takashi Yorifuji Okayama University, Okayama, Japan PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Il Je Yu Institute of Nanoproduct Safety Research, Hoseo University, Asan, The Republic of Korea PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paola Zambon University of Padua, Padova, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hajo Zeeb Department of Prevention and Evaluation, Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shu-Feng Zhou College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Christopher J Portier, Environmental Health Consultant, Thun, CH-3600, Switzerland; cportier{at}me.com

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Portier CJ, Armstrong BK, Baguley BC, et al

Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

J Epidemiol Community Health 2016;70:741-745.

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