The widely used herbicide glyphosate “could get a new life in Europe after being deemed safe by a key assessment largely based on classified industry papers,” says the Guardian. The European Food Safety Agency is deciding whether to extend the chemical’s license for use within the European Union. The Guardian says the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessments “has drawn contrary conclusions” from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, which decided early this year to list glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The German report says there is “very limited evidence of carcinogenicity in mice” exposed to glyphosate, and a spokesperson for the institute said a different WHO working group concluded that glyphosate was not a risk. The institute “relied heavily on unpublished papers” from a task force that supports re-licensing of the herbicide, says the Guardian.