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If all this weren't enough, studies indicate that exposure to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) increases the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other serious health concerns. [http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Non-Hodgkin-Lymphoma-Pesticides.htm][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7728/7728.html][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2001/109p851-857arbuckle/arbuckle-full.html][http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1764160][http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/33/9950].

It should be noted that laboratories that Monsanto employed to do their glyphosate testing, Industrial Biotest Laboratories and Craven Labs were charged with fraud, "Laboratory fraud first made headlines in 1983 when EPA publicly announced that a 1976 audit had discovered 'serious deficiencies and improprieties' in studies conducted by Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT).' Problems included 'countless deaths of rats and mice' and 'routine falsification of data." Craven Labs was charged with "'falsifying laboratory notebook entries' and 'manually manipulating scientific equipment to produce false reports.' Roundup residue studies on plums, potatoes, grapes, and sugarbeets were among the tests in question...the owner of Craven Labs and three employees were indicted on 20 felony counts. The owner was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $50,000; Craven Labs was fined 15.5 million dollars, and ordered to pay 3.7 million dollars in restitution. Although the tests of glyphosate identified as fraudulent have been replaced, this fraud casts shadows on the entire pesticide registration process" [http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Roundup-Glyphosate-Factsheet-Cox.htm] under <i>Quality of Laboratory Testing</i>.