Audrey I still need and want to watch the Documentry on Food Inc.
Here is a follow-up to the earlier article about what monsanto has done to our food chain supply .
not good at all.
.
Tests Reveal More of Monsanto’s Weedkiller in Kids’ Cereals Than Common Vitamins
A shocking amount of the popular herbicide glyphosate, marketed by Monsanto/Bayer as RoundUp, has been found in breakfast cereals marketed to children.
Even more appalling is the revelation that some of the cereals contain more glyphosate than common vitamins.
According to the results of laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, the amount of the toxic herbicide glyphosate “exceeded the amount of both Vitamin D and Vitamin B12” in General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios. More glyphosate than Vitamin A was found in Quaker Oatmeal Squares.
Glyphosate has been linked to a host of health problems that include cancer, digestive issues, and reduced fertility. A California court recently found Monsanto liable for damages relating to a cancer patient who alleged his disease was caused by exposure to the herbicide.
Despite its classification as “probably carcinogenic” to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and its distinction as a chemical known to cause cancer by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the herbicide is one of the most widely used in the world.
Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook responded to the recent findings:
“If General Mills and Quaker refuse to remove glyphosate from these children’s cereals, then the companies should at least let parents know how much of this toxic weedkiller they may be feeding their kids. When there is more weedkiller linked to cancer than essential vitamins in kids’ cereal, parents and all consumers have the right to know.”
Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Just Label It, added:
“The fact that these cereal makers could easily remove glyphosate from their products but have so far refused to do so should raise alarm bells with consumers and shareholders. A weedkiller linked to cancer has no place in any food, especially those overwhelmingly eaten by kids.”
My comment before another article...
This chemical should be banned world wide right now.
Study Finds Links Between RoundUp (Glyphosate) and Fetal Defects
July 25th, 2018
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A new study conducted by Argentinian researchers has found that glyphosate – the controversial herbicide marketed by Monsanto (now Bayer) as RoundUp – causes significant damage to pregnant lab rats and their fetuses at relatively low doses.
The study, published in Archives of Toxicology, found that not only was the female fertility of pregnant rats impaired, but fetal growth was retarded and malformations were detected in their second-generation offspring.
Researchers tested the glyphosate-based chemical in pregnant female rats at two different doses. The higher dose (200 mg glyphosate per kg of bodyweight per day) was chosen based on the no-observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) for maternal toxicity of 1000 mg/kg bw/day promoted by the agrochemical industry as safe for mothers and fetuses.
The lower dose, in contrast, was only 2 mg/kg bw/day and was 1 mg higher than the reference dose set for glyphosate by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That EPA-approved reference dose is the level that the government claims is safe to ingest on a daily basis over one’s lifetime.
However, the researchers asserted that the 2 mg level in the lower dose tested is consistent with glyphosate residue on soybeans and is in keeping with the level of glyphosate detected throughout Argentina.
[img=789x0]https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MEDIA-BLACKOUT_-YEMEN.png[/img]
While the study did find that the tested glyphosate levels did not result in toxicity to the embryo or abnormal maternal behavior, it did show that female fertility in first-generation offspring was significantly reduced as those females showed a lower number of fertilized egg implantations compared to controls.
The most striking findings, however, were the consequences seen in second-generation offspring, with all rats exposed to glyphosate (low and high doses) showing delayed growth, lower fetal weight and length and a significantly higher rate of abnormally small fetuses.
In the high-dose group – and to the authors’ surprise – severe malformations, such as conjoined fetuses and abnormal limbs, were detected in second-generation offspring, with such fetal abnormalities being found in three out of 117 fetuses.
Each of the affected fetuses had a different mother within the first-generation offspring. The study showed a significant statistical correlation between glyphosate exposure and the fetal abnormalities observed.
This result led the authors’ to claim that the industry-declared NOAEL for maternal toxicity is unreliable, given that the high dose that resulted in abnormalities (200 mg) was significantly lower than the NOAEL (1,000 mg). Notably, industry studies that determined the NOAEL did not use glyphosate, but instead aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), a degradation product of glyphosate.
A growing body of evidence, a growing threat to health
The troubling results of this study only add to the growing body of evidence that has linked glyphosate to a host of health problems — including cancer, digestive problems, and reduced fertility. Another recent study, published in May, found that the commonly used herbicide can have major disruptive effects on mammalian sexual development, gene health and the presence of beneficial gut bacteria, even at doses considered safe.
That study and this most recent one both come just months after the European Union voted late last year to approve the use of glyphosate for another five years, despite widespread opposition to the chemical’s re-approval.
However, this recent study’s focus on the dangerous multigenerational effects of glyphosate are particularly alarming given that the presence of the chemical — now produced by Bayer Crop Science, after the Bayer/Monsanto merger — is not only increasingly present in the environment, but in our bodies.
Indeed, a studypublished last year in JAMA found that the presence of RoundUp in the blood of southern Californians had spiked by over 1,200 percent since the early 1990s. Given the findings of this latest study on glyphosate, the ever-increasing presence of this toxic chemical in the environment and within our bodies poses not only a major, current health risk but a risk to future generations.
Top Photo | Activists protest the acquisition of the US agrochemical company Monsanto by the German Bayer in Bonn, Germany, May 25, 2018. Martin Meissner | AP
Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.
My additional comments;
....and the bad news of this common used chemical is so overwhealming ....
has to be the big profits being put to use to pay off the decision makers.
because the right one would be to stop it now and begin the cleasing of the food chain supply..
.
article news.
Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome 'at safe levels', study claims
[color=rgba(27, 27, 27, 0.65098)]Study on rats said to show that the chemical, found in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, poses ‘a significant public health concern’[/color]
[color=var(--body-font-color)]Arthur NeslenWed 16 May 2018 04.30 EDT[/color]
A chemical found in the world’s most widely used weedkiller can have disrupting effects on sexual development, genes and beneficial gut bacteria at doses considered safe, according to a wide-ranging pilot study in rats.
Glyphosate is the core ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and levels found in the human bloodstream have spiked by more than a 1,000% in the last two decades.
The substance was recently relicensed for a shortened five-year lease by the EU. But scientists involved in the new glyphosate study say their results show that it poses “a significant public health concern”.
One of the report’s authors, Daniele Mandrioli, at the Ramazzini Institute in Bologna, Italy, said significant and potentially detrimental effects from glyphosate had been detected in the gut bacteria of rat pups born to mothers, who appeared to have been unaffected themselves.
“It shouldn’t be happening and it is quite remarkable that it is,” Mandrioli said. “Disruption of the microbiome has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, such as obsesity, diabetes and immunological problems.”
Prof Philip J Landrigan, of New York’s Icahn School of Medicine, and also one of the research team, said: “These early warnings must be further investigated in a comprehensive long-term study.” He added that serious health effects from the chemical might manifest as long-term cancer risk: “That might affect a huge number of people, given the planet-wide use of the glyphosate-based herbicides.”
Controversy has raged around glyphosate since a World Health Organisation agency – the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – judged it to be a “probable human carcinogen” in 2015.
However, US and European regulators subsequently deemed it acceptable for use, a move campaigners condemned because of regulators’ use of secret industry papersand experts with alleged ties to Monsanto.
The US firm, which recently merged with Bayer in a deal worth more than $60bn, argues that it is being unfairly targeted by activist scientists with ulterior motives.
Scott Partridge, Monsanto’s VP for global strategy told the Guardian: “The Ramazzini Institute is an activist organisation with an agenda that they have not disclosed as part of their crowdfunding efforts.
They wish to support a ban on glyphosate and they have a long history of rendering opinions not supported by regulatory testing agencies.”
“This is not about genuine research,” he added. “All the research to date has demonstrated that there is no link between glyphosate and cancer.”
In 2017, the Ramazinni Institute was criticised by members of the US Congress, which has provided it with funding. US congress members have also probed funding for the IARC.
The new crowdfunded pilot study which the Ramazzini Institute compiled with Bologna University, the Italian National Health Institute, George Washington State University and the Icahn School of Medicine observed the health effects of glyphosate on Sprague Dawley rats, which had been dosed with the US EPA-determined safe limit of 1.75 micrograms per kilo of body weight.
Two-thirds of known carcinogens had been discovered using the Sprague Dawley rat species, Mandrioli said, although further investigation would be needed to establish long-term risks to human health.
The pilot research did not focus on cancer but it did find evidence of glyphosate bioaccumulation in rats– and changes to reproductive health.
“We saw an increase in ano-genital distance in the formulation that is of specific importance for reproductive health,” Mandrioli said. “It might indicate a disruption of the normal level of sexual hormones.”
The study’s three peer-reviewed papers will be published in Environmental Health later in May, ahead of a €5m follow-up study that will compare the safe level against multiple other doses.
Here is a follow-up to the earlier article about what monsanto has done to our food chain supply .
not good at all.
.
Tests Reveal More of Monsanto’s Weedkiller in Kids’ Cereals Than Common Vitamins
A shocking amount of the popular herbicide glyphosate, marketed by Monsanto/Bayer as RoundUp, has been found in breakfast cereals marketed to children.
Even more appalling is the revelation that some of the cereals contain more glyphosate than common vitamins.
According to the results of laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, the amount of the toxic herbicide glyphosate “exceeded the amount of both Vitamin D and Vitamin B12” in General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios. More glyphosate than Vitamin A was found in Quaker Oatmeal Squares.
Glyphosate has been linked to a host of health problems that include cancer, digestive issues, and reduced fertility. A California court recently found Monsanto liable for damages relating to a cancer patient who alleged his disease was caused by exposure to the herbicide.
Despite its classification as “probably carcinogenic” to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and its distinction as a chemical known to cause cancer by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the herbicide is one of the most widely used in the world.
Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook responded to the recent findings:
“If General Mills and Quaker refuse to remove glyphosate from these children’s cereals, then the companies should at least let parents know how much of this toxic weedkiller they may be feeding their kids. When there is more weedkiller linked to cancer than essential vitamins in kids’ cereal, parents and all consumers have the right to know.”
Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Just Label It, added:
“The fact that these cereal makers could easily remove glyphosate from their products but have so far refused to do so should raise alarm bells with consumers and shareholders. A weedkiller linked to cancer has no place in any food, especially those overwhelmingly eaten by kids.”
My comment before another article...
This chemical should be banned world wide right now.
Study Finds Links Between RoundUp (Glyphosate) and Fetal Defects
July 25th, 2018
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – A new study conducted by Argentinian researchers has found that glyphosate – the controversial herbicide marketed by Monsanto (now Bayer) as RoundUp – causes significant damage to pregnant lab rats and their fetuses at relatively low doses.
The study, published in Archives of Toxicology, found that not only was the female fertility of pregnant rats impaired, but fetal growth was retarded and malformations were detected in their second-generation offspring.
Researchers tested the glyphosate-based chemical in pregnant female rats at two different doses. The higher dose (200 mg glyphosate per kg of bodyweight per day) was chosen based on the no-observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) for maternal toxicity of 1000 mg/kg bw/day promoted by the agrochemical industry as safe for mothers and fetuses.
The lower dose, in contrast, was only 2 mg/kg bw/day and was 1 mg higher than the reference dose set for glyphosate by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That EPA-approved reference dose is the level that the government claims is safe to ingest on a daily basis over one’s lifetime.
However, the researchers asserted that the 2 mg level in the lower dose tested is consistent with glyphosate residue on soybeans and is in keeping with the level of glyphosate detected throughout Argentina.
[img=789x0]https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MEDIA-BLACKOUT_-YEMEN.png[/img]
While the study did find that the tested glyphosate levels did not result in toxicity to the embryo or abnormal maternal behavior, it did show that female fertility in first-generation offspring was significantly reduced as those females showed a lower number of fertilized egg implantations compared to controls.
The most striking findings, however, were the consequences seen in second-generation offspring, with all rats exposed to glyphosate (low and high doses) showing delayed growth, lower fetal weight and length and a significantly higher rate of abnormally small fetuses.
In the high-dose group – and to the authors’ surprise – severe malformations, such as conjoined fetuses and abnormal limbs, were detected in second-generation offspring, with such fetal abnormalities being found in three out of 117 fetuses.
Each of the affected fetuses had a different mother within the first-generation offspring. The study showed a significant statistical correlation between glyphosate exposure and the fetal abnormalities observed.
This result led the authors’ to claim that the industry-declared NOAEL for maternal toxicity is unreliable, given that the high dose that resulted in abnormalities (200 mg) was significantly lower than the NOAEL (1,000 mg). Notably, industry studies that determined the NOAEL did not use glyphosate, but instead aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), a degradation product of glyphosate.
A growing body of evidence, a growing threat to health
The troubling results of this study only add to the growing body of evidence that has linked glyphosate to a host of health problems — including cancer, digestive problems, and reduced fertility. Another recent study, published in May, found that the commonly used herbicide can have major disruptive effects on mammalian sexual development, gene health and the presence of beneficial gut bacteria, even at doses considered safe.
That study and this most recent one both come just months after the European Union voted late last year to approve the use of glyphosate for another five years, despite widespread opposition to the chemical’s re-approval.
However, this recent study’s focus on the dangerous multigenerational effects of glyphosate are particularly alarming given that the presence of the chemical — now produced by Bayer Crop Science, after the Bayer/Monsanto merger — is not only increasingly present in the environment, but in our bodies.
Indeed, a studypublished last year in JAMA found that the presence of RoundUp in the blood of southern Californians had spiked by over 1,200 percent since the early 1990s. Given the findings of this latest study on glyphosate, the ever-increasing presence of this toxic chemical in the environment and within our bodies poses not only a major, current health risk but a risk to future generations.
Top Photo | Activists protest the acquisition of the US agrochemical company Monsanto by the German Bayer in Bonn, Germany, May 25, 2018. Martin Meissner | AP
Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.
My additional comments;
....and the bad news of this common used chemical is so overwhealming ....
has to be the big profits being put to use to pay off the decision makers.
because the right one would be to stop it now and begin the cleasing of the food chain supply..
.
article news.
Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome 'at safe levels', study claims
[color=rgba(27, 27, 27, 0.65098)]Study on rats said to show that the chemical, found in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, poses ‘a significant public health concern’[/color]
[color=var(--body-font-color)]Arthur NeslenWed 16 May 2018 04.30 EDT[/color]
A chemical found in the world’s most widely used weedkiller can have disrupting effects on sexual development, genes and beneficial gut bacteria at doses considered safe, according to a wide-ranging pilot study in rats.
Glyphosate is the core ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and levels found in the human bloodstream have spiked by more than a 1,000% in the last two decades.
The substance was recently relicensed for a shortened five-year lease by the EU. But scientists involved in the new glyphosate study say their results show that it poses “a significant public health concern”.
One of the report’s authors, Daniele Mandrioli, at the Ramazzini Institute in Bologna, Italy, said significant and potentially detrimental effects from glyphosate had been detected in the gut bacteria of rat pups born to mothers, who appeared to have been unaffected themselves.
“It shouldn’t be happening and it is quite remarkable that it is,” Mandrioli said. “Disruption of the microbiome has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, such as obsesity, diabetes and immunological problems.”
Prof Philip J Landrigan, of New York’s Icahn School of Medicine, and also one of the research team, said: “These early warnings must be further investigated in a comprehensive long-term study.” He added that serious health effects from the chemical might manifest as long-term cancer risk: “That might affect a huge number of people, given the planet-wide use of the glyphosate-based herbicides.”
Controversy has raged around glyphosate since a World Health Organisation agency – the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – judged it to be a “probable human carcinogen” in 2015.
However, US and European regulators subsequently deemed it acceptable for use, a move campaigners condemned because of regulators’ use of secret industry papersand experts with alleged ties to Monsanto.
The US firm, which recently merged with Bayer in a deal worth more than $60bn, argues that it is being unfairly targeted by activist scientists with ulterior motives.
Scott Partridge, Monsanto’s VP for global strategy told the Guardian: “The Ramazzini Institute is an activist organisation with an agenda that they have not disclosed as part of their crowdfunding efforts.
They wish to support a ban on glyphosate and they have a long history of rendering opinions not supported by regulatory testing agencies.”
“This is not about genuine research,” he added. “All the research to date has demonstrated that there is no link between glyphosate and cancer.”
In 2017, the Ramazinni Institute was criticised by members of the US Congress, which has provided it with funding. US congress members have also probed funding for the IARC.
The new crowdfunded pilot study which the Ramazzini Institute compiled with Bologna University, the Italian National Health Institute, George Washington State University and the Icahn School of Medicine observed the health effects of glyphosate on Sprague Dawley rats, which had been dosed with the US EPA-determined safe limit of 1.75 micrograms per kilo of body weight.
Two-thirds of known carcinogens had been discovered using the Sprague Dawley rat species, Mandrioli said, although further investigation would be needed to establish long-term risks to human health.
The pilot research did not focus on cancer but it did find evidence of glyphosate bioaccumulation in rats– and changes to reproductive health.
“We saw an increase in ano-genital distance in the formulation that is of specific importance for reproductive health,” Mandrioli said. “It might indicate a disruption of the normal level of sexual hormones.”
The study’s three peer-reviewed papers will be published in Environmental Health later in May, ahead of a €5m follow-up study that will compare the safe level against multiple other doses.