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    Weedkiller Found in Wide Range of US Breakfast Foods Aimed at Children

    Cancer-linked herbicide, sold as Roundup by Monsanto, present in 45 products including granola, snack bars and Cheerios

    The Guardian UK, 16 Aug 2018.


    Significant levels of the weedkilling chemical glyphosate have been found in an array of popular breakfast cereals, oats and snack bars marketed to US children, a new study has found.

    Tests revealed glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller brand Roundup, present in all but two of the 45 oat-derived products that were sampled by the Environmental Working Group, a public health organization.

    Nearly three in four of the products exceeded what the EWG classes safe for children to consume. Products with some of the highest levels of glyphosate include granola, oats and snack bars made by leading industry names Quaker, Kellogg’s and General Mills, which makes Cheerios.

    One sample of Quaker Old Fashioned Oats measured at more than 1,000 parts per billion of glyphosate. The Environmental Protection Agency has a range of safe levels for glyphosate on crops such as corn, soybeans, grains and some fruits, spanning 0.1 to 310 parts per million.

    “I grew up eating Cheerios and Quaker Oats long before they were tainted with glyphosate,” said EWG’s president, Ken Cook. “No one wants to eat a weedkiller for breakfast, and no one should have to do so.” Cook said EWG will urge the EPA to limit the use of glyphosate on food crops but said companies should “step up” because of the “lawless” nature of the regulator under the Trump administration.

    “It is very troubling that cereals children like to eat contain glyphosate,” said Alexis Temkin, an EWG toxicologist and author of the report. “Parents shouldn’t worry about whether feeding their children heathy oat foods will also expose them to a chemical linked to cancer. The government must take steps to protect our most vulnerable populations.”

    The findings follow a landmark decision in a San Francisco court last week to order that Monsanto pay $289m in damages to Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper. A jury deemed that Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller caused Johnson’s cancer and that it had failed to warn him about the health risks of exposure.

    Monsanto, which said it will appeal against the verdict, has said glyphosate has been used safely for decades. In 2015, the EPA said that glyphosate has a low toxicity for people but could cause problems for some pets if they consume the chemical.

    However, the World Health Organization has called glyphosate a “probable carcinogen” and authorities in California list it as a chemical “known to the state to cause cancer”.

    In April, internal emails obtained from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showed that scientists have found glyphosate on a wide range of commonly consumed food, to the point that they were finding it difficult to identify a food without the chemical on it. The FDA has yet to release any official results from this process.

    US farmers spray about 200m pounds of Roundup each year on their crops, including corn, soybeans, wheat and oats. It can also be used on produce such as spinach and almonds.

    A General Mills spokeswoman said: “Our products are safe and without question they meet regulatory safety levels. The EPA has researched this issue and has set rules that we follow, as do farmers who grow crops including wheat and oats.”

    A Kellogg’s spokesman said: “Our food is safe. Providing safe, high-quality foods is one of the ways we earn the trust of millions of people around the world. The EPA sets strict standards for safe levels of these agricultural residues and the ingredients we purchase from suppliers for our foods fall under these limits.”

    Quaker Oats continues to “proudly stand by the safety and quality of our Quaker products”, a spokesman said.

    But Cook said that General Mills and Quaker Oats are “relying on outdated safety standards”.

    “Our view is that the government standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency pose real health risks to Americans *– particularly children, who are more sensitive to the effects of toxic chemicals than adults,” he said.

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    Yes but we ingest that stuff when we were young? I think they are blowing this stuff WAY out of proportion...JMO.
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    I think Monsanto needs to be eliminated period......

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    Monsanto, which said it will appeal against the verdict, has said glyphosate has been used safely for decades.

    so was asbestos
    how did that work out?
    and it still got used after it was banned in '73
    local detention centre was built in that year and is full of it
    same goes with 100's of schools
    I mean who wants to get stuck with thousands of dollars of unusable stock?

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    Hah...When I was a kid they sprayed tons of DDT with massive sprayers to combat the very bad mosquito infestations we had by the river every spring, we use to ride our bikes through the huge clouds of the stuff, it was fun, it did nothing to me.

    I don't use round up, too costly, the stuff I use still has the bad stuff in it, but cheaper.


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    With the increase in population comes the need for more food which means the need to grow more faster. So the use of chemicals and or pesticides would be used more and more frequently. Imo that could become a bigger problem than it was back in the day. The problem with climate issues as well. It may not been as much of a problem back in the day but things have accelerated the world over. I think some of the deniers don't take that into account. Imo some of it has gone past the point of fixing climate wise.

    H^ll we didn't wear any head gear etc. back in the day while riding our bicycles but there were a lot less cars on the road back then. And you didn't have to worry about someone having their nose stuck in there phone and trying to drive all at the same time and in turn possibly running your happy @zz over.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Terryl View Post
    Hah...When I was a kid they sprayed tons of DDT with massive sprayers to combat the very bad mosquito infestations we had by the river every spring, we use to ride our bikes through the huge clouds of the stuff, it was fun, it did nothing to me.

    I don't use round up, too costly, the stuff I use still has the bad stuff in it, but cheaper.


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    I used to live up north back in the 60's and they would fog the whole area with DDT. Us kids would be running around in the fog having a great time, sometimes we would have to hit the ground gasping for air under the fog. I'm still alive - so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    Monsanto, which said it will appeal against the verdict, has said glyphosate has been used safely for decades.

    so was asbestos
    how did that work out?
    and it still got used after it was banned in '73
    local detention centre was built in that year and is full of it
    same goes with 100's of schools
    I mean who wants to get stuck with thousands of dollars of unusable stock?
    Unfortunately many banned products were the best for the intended job and now we have to use inferior products.
    Asbestos was the best fire proofing.
    DDT was the best insect killer.
    R22 was the best refrigerant.
    PCB's were the best heat transfer fluid.
    etc, etc

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    they're putting plastic in our foods as fillers too .... & about 1000 things i could post per day but i shut them down instead of write about it ;x

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    yeah like roman noodles plastic
    Cant believe it's not butter Plastic, you could set it outside and not a damn bug will touch it!
    They use Glue to make fake meat..
    such BS

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