THE Grapevine

JO IMMIG Jo is an environmental scientist, photographer and writer. She has worked in the environment movement for decades and is co-ordinator of the National Toxics Network, an organisation dedicated to creating a toxicfree future. She has written many articles for magazines and is the author of two books: Toxic Playground and Safer Solutions. GLYPHOSATE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT The more we know about the world’s top-selling herbicide glyphosate, the more concern seems to grow about its continued use in our gardens, parks, playgrounds and agriculture. The international debate about glyphosate’s safety really hotted up after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a scientific monograph in 2015 finding that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic to humans”. The IARC found there was some evidence of carcinogenicity in people for non-Hodgkin lymphoma…