Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides?

Laura N Vandenberg; Bruce Blumberg; Michael N Antoniou; Charles M Benbrook; Lynn Carroll; Theo Colborn; Lorne G Everett; Michael Hansen; Philip J Landrigan; Bruce P Lanphear; Robin Mesnage; Frederick S vom Saal; Wade V Welshons; John Peterson Myers

doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208463

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Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides?

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Laura N Vandenberg Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce Blumberg Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael N Antoniou Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Charles M Benbrook University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK Benbrook Consulting Services, Enterprise, Oregon, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lynn Carroll TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Paonia, Colorado, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Theo Colborn TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Paonia, Colorado, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lorne G Everett L. Everett & Associates, Santa Barbara, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael Hansen Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Philip J Landrigan Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bruce P Lanphear Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Robin Mesnage Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Frederick S vom Saal Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Wade V Welshons Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John Peterson Myers Environmental Health Sciences, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Laura N Vandenberg, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, 171A Goessmann, 686 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; lvandenberg{at}schoolph.umass.edu

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Vandenberg LN, Blumberg B, Antoniou MN, et al

Is it time to reassess current safety standards for glyphosate-based herbicides?

J Epidemiol Community Health 2017;71:613-618.

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Received November 24, 2016
Revised January 25, 2017
Accepted January 30, 2017
First published March 20, 2017.

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