A study from 2000, which concluded the herbicide glyphosate was safe for humans, has just been retracted, after documents unearthed during a US court case revealed that Monsanto staff members were undisclosed “ghostwriters”. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The paper, Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans , was originally published in April 2000 in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. Its three authors, Gary M. Williams, Robert Kroes, and Ian C. Munro, performed a review of safety data for Roundup, one of the most popular herbicide products ever created, and concluded that it “does not pose a health risk to humans.”

The study

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