Glyphosate: its classification as a carcinogen is ‘unjustified’ according to ECHA

The findings of a study carried out by the Ramazzini Institute in June 2025, which examined the carcinogenicity of glyphosate, do not “justify its classification as a carcinogen”, according to the opinion of the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), adopted on 8 September 2026.

At that meeting, the RAC concluded that this study did not call into question the conclusions of the hazard assessment of glyphosate, and in particular its 2022 decision, which did not classify the substance as carcinogenic.

This decision had, in particular, served as the basis for the European Commission’s renewal of the authorisation for glyphosate for ten years in 2023.

ECHA states that this new opinion takes into account the comments received during the consultation on the study, which took place from 2 to 31 March 2026, as well as the results of the RAC’s preliminary discussion in June 2026.

The document will be forwarded to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Commission “within the next few months”, and will then be published on the ECHA website.

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