all pertinent data on glyphosate . This product has been in heavy use for over 40 years, or multiple human generations . There are way more worry some toxins on the market that are newer with less study . This

The report found that industry's own studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s showed that glyphosate causes birth defects in experimental animals.

While the industry studies themselves are held by the German government and remain secret, the Earth Open Source authors examined Germany's summary report on the studies, which is in the public domain.

The Earth Open Source authors were surprised to find that the German regulator consistently dismissed evidence of birth defects using unscientific reasoning.

For example, the German regulator introduced irrelevant "historical control data" to dilute out the malformations seen in exposed groups of animals, enabling a false conclusion of no effect from glyphosate exposure. It also creatively redefined a known skeletal malformation as "rather a developmental variation than a malformation".