Glifosato: Por qu no?

Qu es el glifosato?

Herbicida sistmico no selectivo

En cantidades reducidas puede ser usado
como regulador del crecimiento
Uso aumentado debido ha plantas
resistentes
Degradacin por microbios del suelo a
AMPA

Humanos

(National Pesticide Information Center, 2015)

Plantas

Inhibicin de la EPSP sintasa

lo cual reduce la sntesis de
aminocidos
aromticos
impidiendo el crecimiento
de la planta (National
Pesticide
Information
Center, 2015)
Perdida de coloracin,
Encogimiento de hojas
Muerte del tejido

Toxicidad

Evidencia limitada de linfoma no Hodgkins

(Guyton, et al., 2015)
Incremento de microncleos en
poblaciones colombianas (Bolognesi, et
al., 2009)
Dao cromosomico in vitro

Animales (ratas)

Evidencia suficiente de carcinognesis

Posible hemangiosarcoma
Tendencia al carcinoma del tbulo renal
Incremento del adenoma en los islotes pancreaticos
Una de las formulaciones esta correlacionada con cncer en la piel

Grupo 2-A
limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans
and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in
experimental animals.

Evidencia limitada
Limited evidence means that a positive
association has been observed between
exposure to the agent and cancer but that other
explanations for the observations (called
chance, bias, or confounding) could not be
ruled out.

Resolucin 0006 de 2015 del Consejo Nacional de Estupefacientes

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