Federal lawmakers are looking into how U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff may have influenced findings by the World Health Organization that glyphosate probably caused cancer, according to a letter sent to the EPA on Tuesday.
The letter - sent by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology - is part of an ongoing investigation into the agency after the EPA posted and withdrew an internal report that said glyphosate was not cancer causing.
One question that lawmakers are trying to answer, according to sources: whether EPA staff are allowing personal bias to color the agency's scientific review.
According to the committee's letter to the EPA, and reviewed by Reuters, lawmakers want congressional staff to interview four top EPA officials who were involved in one or both reviews of glyphosate, to better understand agency processes.
The EPA could not be immediately reached for comment.
In an earlier letter to the committee, the agency said that publishing the CARC report was an accident and that the cancer review was still ongoing.
Source: www.agprofessional.com