{"id":19273,"date":"2016-10-21T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=19273"},"modified":"2016-10-21T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:55:22","slug":"epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides,<\/em> October 21, 2016) Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed \u00a0a long-planned Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on the carcinogenicity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/02\/monsantos-glyphosate-roundup-reported-most-used-herbicide-globally\/\">widely used<\/a> herbicide glyphosate due to \u201crecent changes in the availability of experts for the peer review panel.\u201d  \u00a0However, as veteran journalist, formerly with Reuters, Carey Gillam reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/carey-gillam\/epa-bows-to-chemical-indu_b_12563438.html\">in the Huffington Post<\/a>, the move was likely the result of a letter industry front group CropLife America sent to EPA just days before the postponement, challenging the bias of certain experts on the panel. Croplife America is a national trade association that represents manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of pesticides, and has a vested interest in tamping down consumer concerns over glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13999\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\" alt=\"epa_seal_profiles\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg 200w, https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>CropLife\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/191hmt1pr08amfq62276etw2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CLA-Comments-on-SAP-Disqualification-10-12-16.pdf\">letter<\/a> focuses in on two experts that were set to present in front of the EPA panel, Peter Infante, Dr.PH., and Kenneth Portier, PhD. CropLife writes that Dr. Infante will \u201creflexively discount any and all industry sponsored studies\u201d\u00a6\u201d and indicates that his bias should preclude him from participation in the SAP. The group also asserts that Dr. Portier, who despite admission that \u201che has not previously testified against or otherwise expressed the patent bias against pesticide manufacturers,\u201d should not be completely disqualified from participation, but somehow vetted and confirmed by EPA that he will not approach the issue without preformed conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Biographies of members of the EPA glyphosate SAP cancer panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2016-10\/documents\/fqpa_srb_panel_member_biosketches_oct_2016.pdf\">are available here<\/a> and speak largely for themselves. According to \u00a0Dr. Infante\u2019s biography, which includes robust experience in government safety programs, \u201cHe has served as an expert consultant in epidemiology for: the National Toxicology Program\u2019s (NTP) Report on Carcinogens (RoC); for working groups of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC); the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee; and as an expert on cancer risk from asbestos exposure for the World Trade Organization (WTO).\u201d  \u00a0Despite this objectively deep experience, CropLife was concerned that he would be the only epidemiologist and would not emphasize studies the <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2015\/07\/monsanto-supported-group-attempting-to-undercut-roundup-cancer-finding-according-to-report\/\">industry itself has put out<\/a> about the safety of glyphosate.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Portier is the Vice President of the Statistics and Evaluation Center at the American Cancer Society, and, \u201chas participated in over 60 FIFRA-SAP meetings since 1999 and five SAB science review panels. In addition, Dr. Portier has served on expert and advisory panels for the National Institutes \u00a0 of \u00a0 Health \u00a0 (NIH), \u00a0 National \u00a0 Institute \u00a0 of \u00a0 Environmental \u00a0 Health \u00a0 Sciences \u00a0 (NIEHS), \u00a0 the \u00a0 National Toxicology Program (NTP), and the World Health Organization Food and Agriculture Organization \u00a0 (WHO\/FAO) in Geneva, Switzerland.\u201d However, CropLife believes Dr. Portier would not be an objective panel member because his brother is \u201ca noted and vehement anti-glyphosate activist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These attacks on independent scientists, and \u00a0the American Cancer Society, represent a new low for the pesticide industry. EPA\u2019s quick turnaround, apparently in response to CropLife criticims, postponed a meeting less than a week before it was to take place, for which plane tickets were purchased and was planned for months in advance, raises serious concerns that advocates say warrant an independent investigation on the objectivity of EPA\u2019s approach to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Pesticides is concerned about what it views as incessant industry driven attacks on independent and government scientists.  \u00a0In 2015, one of the top entomologists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peer.org\/assets\/docs\/usda\/10_26_15_Lundgren_Whistleblower_%20Complaint.pdf\"><strong>filed a whistleblower complaint<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0against a \u00a0federal agency, citing unprofessional retaliation following the publication of a \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bioscienceresource.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pecenka-and-Lundgren-2015-Early-On-line.pdf\"><strong>study<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0linking neonicotinoid insecticides to the decline of monarch butterflies. Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., former senior research entomologist and lab supervisor for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in South Dakota, faced suspension for publishing research deemed \u201csensitive\u201d by his USDA superior, underscoring why legal protections for government scientists are sorely needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gateway\/index.php?pesticideid=37\"><strong>Glyphosate<\/strong><\/a>, which is produced and sold as Roundup<sup>TM \u00a0<\/sup>by Monsanto, has been touted by industry and EPA as a \u201clow toxicity\u201d chemical, \u201csafer\u201d than other pesticides. It is widely used in food production and on lawns, gardens, parks, and children\u2019s playing fields. In 2015, the IARC classified glyphosate as a Group 2A \u201cprobable\u201d carcinogen. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2015\/03\/glyphosate-classified-carcinogenic-by-international-cancer-agency-group-calls-on-u-s-to-end-herbicides-use-and-advance-alternatives\/\">IARC\u2019s 2015 findings<\/a>, Group 2A means that the chemical is probably carcinogenic to humans based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. IARC considered the findings from a prior EPA Scientific Advisory Panel report, along with several recent studies in making its conclusion. The international organization also noted that glyphosate caused DNA and chromosomal damage in human cells. Further, epidemiologic studies have found that exposure to glyphosate is significantly associated with an increased risk of non-Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphoma (NHL).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/07\/glyphosate-causes-changes-dna-resulting-chronic-disease\/\"> According another \u00a0review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/305318376_Glyphosate_pathways_to_modern_diseases_V_Amino_acid_analogue_of_glycine_in_diverse_proteins\"><em>Glyphosate pathways to modern disease V: Amino acid analogue of glycine in diverse proteins<\/em><\/a>, conducted by independent scientists Anthony Samsel, Ph.D. and Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), glyphosate acts as a glycine analogue that \u00a0incorporates into peptides during protein synthesis. In this process, it alters a number of proteins that depend on conserved glycine for proper function. According to the authors, glyphosate substitution for glycine correlates with \u00a0several diseases, including diabetes, obesity, asthma, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson\u2019s disease, among others.<\/p>\n<p>EPA indicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/carey-gillam\/epa-bows-to-chemical-indu_b_12563438.html\">the Huffington Post<\/a> that it was \u201cworking to reschedule as soon as possible.\u201d In order to ensure an outcome based on fact, and not industry spin, it is critical that EPA not continue to cave to industry pressure on this important issue. For more information about glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity, see Beyond Pesticides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/pesticide-gateway?pesticideid=37\">fact sheet on glyphosate<\/a>, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/GlyphosateCausesCancer.pdf\">2015 article on the IARC decisio<\/a>n in <em>Pesticides and You, <\/em>our quarterly newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/carey-gillam\/epa-bows-to-chemical-indu_b_12563438.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0385-0380\">EPA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, October 21, 2016) Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed \u00a0a long-planned Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on the carcinogenicity of the widely used herbicide glyphosate due to \u201crecent changes in the availability of experts for the peer review panel.\u201d \u00a0However, as veteran journalist, formerly with Reuters, Carey Gillam reports in the Huffington Post, the move was likely the result of a letter industry front group CropLife America sent to EPA just days before the postponement, challenging the bias of certain experts on the panel. Croplife America is a national trade association that represents manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of pesticides, and has a vested interest in tamping down consumer concerns over glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity. CropLife\u2019s letter focuses in on two experts that were set to present in front of the EPA panel, Peter Infante, Dr.PH., and Kenneth Portier, PhD. CropLife writes that Dr. Infante will \u201creflexively discount any and all industry sponsored studies\u201d\u00a6\u201d and indicates that his bias should preclude him from participation in the SAP. The group also asserts that Dr. Portier, who despite admission that \u201che has not previously testified against or otherwise expressed the patent bias against pesticide manufacturers,\u201d should not be completely disqualified from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,21,41,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-chemicals","category-glyphosate","category-national-politics","category-pesticide-regulation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, October 21, 2016) Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed \u00a0a long-planned Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on the carcinogenicity of the widely used herbicide glyphosate due to \u201crecent changes in the availability of experts for the peer review panel.\u201d \u00a0However, as veteran journalist, formerly with Reuters, Carey Gillam reports in the Huffington Post, the move was likely the result of a letter industry front group CropLife America sent to EPA just days before the postponement, challenging the bias of certain experts on the panel. Croplife America is a national trade association that represents manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of pesticides, and has a vested interest in tamping down consumer concerns over glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity. CropLife\u2019s letter focuses in on two experts that were set to present in front of the EPA panel, Peter Infante, Dr.PH., and Kenneth Portier, PhD. CropLife writes that Dr. Infante will \u201creflexively discount any and all industry sponsored studies\u201d\u00a6\u201d and indicates that his bias should preclude him from participation in the SAP. The group also asserts that Dr. Portier, who despite admission that \u201che has not previously testified against or otherwise expressed the patent bias against pesticide manufacturers,\u201d should not be completely disqualified from [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beyond Pesticides\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ByondPesticides\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ByondPesticides\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Beyond Pesticides\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Beyond Pesticides\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/1b5c0a0981b549cc5b628770073031f4\"},\"headline\":\"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\"},\"wordCount\":935,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Announcements\",\"Chemicals\",\"Glyphosate\",\"National Politics\",\"Pesticide Regulation\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\",\"name\":\"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/\",\"name\":\"Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\",\"description\":\"News on Pesticide Science, Policy and Activism\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Beyond Pesticides\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BeyondPesticides-Logo-Stacked-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BeyondPesticides-Logo-Stacked-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":2501,\"caption\":\"Beyond Pesticides\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByondPesticides\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beyondpesticides\/?hl=en\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/beyond-pesticides\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bpncamp\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/1b5c0a0981b549cc5b628770073031f4\",\"name\":\"Beyond Pesticides\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26b7558fcb265e244c6e159abe5f0aab551822dc82fd0b1607e809bdfbed20a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26b7558fcb265e244c6e159abe5f0aab551822dc82fd0b1607e809bdfbed20a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Beyond Pesticides\"},\"description\":\"Beyond Pesticides is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., which works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions which affect them directly.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beyondpesticides\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/beyond-pesticides\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByondPesticides\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bpncamp\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/author\/beyond-pesticides\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog","og_description":"(Beyond Pesticides, October 21, 2016) Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) postponed \u00a0a long-planned Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on the carcinogenicity of the widely used herbicide glyphosate due to \u201crecent changes in the availability of experts for the peer review panel.\u201d \u00a0However, as veteran journalist, formerly with Reuters, Carey Gillam reports in the Huffington Post, the move was likely the result of a letter industry front group CropLife America sent to EPA just days before the postponement, challenging the bias of certain experts on the panel. Croplife America is a national trade association that represents manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of pesticides, and has a vested interest in tamping down consumer concerns over glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity. CropLife\u2019s letter focuses in on two experts that were set to present in front of the EPA panel, Peter Infante, Dr.PH., and Kenneth Portier, PhD. CropLife writes that Dr. Infante will \u201creflexively discount any and all industry sponsored studies\u201d\u00a6\u201d and indicates that his bias should preclude him from participation in the SAP. The group also asserts that Dr. Portier, who despite admission that \u201che has not previously testified against or otherwise expressed the patent bias against pesticide manufacturers,\u201d should not be completely disqualified from [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/","og_site_name":"Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\/","article_published_time":"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Beyond Pesticides","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ByondPesticides","twitter_site":"@ByondPesticides","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Beyond Pesticides","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/"},"author":{"name":"Beyond Pesticides","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/1b5c0a0981b549cc5b628770073031f4"},"headline":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America","datePublished":"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/"},"wordCount":935,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg","articleSection":["Announcements","Chemicals","Glyphosate","National Politics","Pesticide Regulation"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/","url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/","name":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg","datePublished":"2016-10-21T04:00:17+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-21T13:55:22+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/epa_seal_profiles.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/10\/epa-postpones-glyphosate-cancer-review-meeting-letter-croplife-america\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"EPA Postpones Glyphosate Cancer Review Meeting after Letter from CropLife America"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/","name":"Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog","description":"News on Pesticide Science, Policy and Activism","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#organization","name":"Beyond Pesticides","url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BeyondPesticides-Logo-Stacked-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BeyondPesticides-Logo-Stacked-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":2501,"caption":"Beyond Pesticides"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides","https:\/\/x.com\/ByondPesticides","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beyondpesticides\/?hl=en","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/beyond-pesticides","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bpncamp"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/1b5c0a0981b549cc5b628770073031f4","name":"Beyond Pesticides","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26b7558fcb265e244c6e159abe5f0aab551822dc82fd0b1607e809bdfbed20a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26b7558fcb265e244c6e159abe5f0aab551822dc82fd0b1607e809bdfbed20a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Beyond Pesticides"},"description":"Beyond Pesticides is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., which works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions which affect them directly.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beyondpesticides\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beyondpesticides\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/beyond-pesticides\/","https:\/\/x.com\/ByondPesticides","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bpncamp\/"],"url":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/author\/beyond-pesticides\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19273"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}