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Atrazine Exposure Leads to More Male, Fewer Female Frogs
October 19, 2017
Exposure to the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S., atrazine, results in a higher proportion of male frogs in populations of Blanchard’s
Monsanto Banned from Lobbying European Parliament
October 18, 2017
Effective immediately, the European Parliament has banned Monsanto lobbyists, excluding the chemical company from access to committee meetings and
Scientists Urge Retraction of Journal Article on Glyphosate's Safety, Surreptitiously Written by Monsanto
October 17, 2017
In a letter to the scientific journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology, scientists called for the retraction of a 2016 paper that refuted glyphosate’s cancer
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