The Majority of Americans are Eating Chemical “Drenched” Foods

The Majority of Americans are Eating Chemical “Drenched” Foods

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Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s (NYSE:MON) Roundup herbicide, is the most used agriculture chemical in history.

In Y 2014, farmers sprayed enough glyphosate to apply 0.8 lbs of the chemical to every acre of cultivated cropland in the US and nearly 0.5 lb of glyphosate to all cropland worldwide.

Yet, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Residue Program, which is tasked with monitoring pesticide residues in the US food supply, does not test for glyphosate residues.

As more health risks emerge people are starting to wonder just how much glyphosate is in the food.

The signs so far are not reassuring.

Glyphosate has been detected in blood, breastmilk and urine samples.

US women had maximum glyphosate levels that were more than 8X higher than levels found in urine of Europeans, according to laboratory testing commissioned by the organizations Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse.

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) recently conducted its own research to determine if glyphosate is found in commonly consumed breakfast foods and their tests revealed the worst, that “our food system has been saturated with glyphosate, reaching even into some organic products.”

10 out of 24 breakfast foods tested in ANH’s analysis had detectable levels of glyphosate.

This included oatmeal, bagels, coffee creamer, organic bread and even organic, cage-free, antibiotic-free eggs.

The majority of the glyphosate was found at levels below the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed allowable daily intake (ADI), but this is a dubious measure of safety.

As ANH noted, the EPA’s ADI for glyphosate is nearly six times higher than the EU’s and fails to take into account:

1. Recent evidence of carcinogenicity
2. Toxicity of adjuvants in glyphosate formulations
3. The very wide distribution of glyphosate in food and water
4. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in February 2016 that it would begin testing foods, such as Corn and Soybean, for glyphosate, which may help to quantify just how much glyphosate Americans are consuming.

Keep in mind that current allowable limits may be set far too high to protect our health, so unless that is revised, consumers may be lulled into a false sense of security if the tests come back “within allowable limits.”

So, eat Organic as much as possible, avoid the chemicals that may be toxic.

Eat healthy, Be healthy, Live lively.

Paul Ebeling

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