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The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer reclassified glyphosate as a carcinogen last week.
The agency cited “convincing evidence” that the herbicide produces cancer in lab animals and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans.
The glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup is the preferred weapon for killing Colombian cocaine harvests in programmes funded by the US.
More than four million acres have been sprayed over the past two decades.
But Monsanto and other manufacturers rejected the WHO ruling and General Ricardo Restrepo, commander of the anti-narcotics police, said he had not seen the WHO warning and herbicide spraying was proceeding as usual.
