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Evaluation of carcinogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate, drawing on tumor incidence data from fourteen chronic/carcinogenicity rodent studies

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Pages 185-208 | Received 06 Nov 2014, Accepted 28 Dec 2014, Published online: 26 Feb 2015

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