In 2015, however, a World Health Organization body called the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) came to the conclusion that glyphosate might be capable of causing cancer at very high doses. It admitted that by the same criteria, sausages and sawdust should also be classified as carcinogens, while coffee was even more dangerous (and unlike glyphosate is regularly drunk). The effect would be minuscule: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was found to contain glyphosate at a concentration of up to 1.23 parts per billion, so a child would have to eat 3 tonnes of it a day before any risk would
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