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Council workers spraying the weed-killer glyphosate in playgrounds won't hurt your children

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imageRoundup, or the chemical glyphosate, is a very common herbicide used to kill weeds.Mike Mozart/Flickr, CC BY

A group of rural Victorians has petitioned their local council to stop using the household weed-killer Roundup (glyphosate).

Their concerns centre around an assessment made last year by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) &n...

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