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European Union nations vote to keep using controversial weedkiller glyphosate

One agency has linked the widely used herbicide to cancer.

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Casassus, B. European Union nations vote to keep using controversial weedkiller glyphosate. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.23044

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