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10 Food Companies Join EWG Glyphosate Petition
10 food manufacturers and retailers have joined EWG’s petition to sharply limit glyphosate residues allowed on oats and prohibit the pesticide’s use as a pre-harvest drying agent. The following companies have joined EWG’s petition: Amy’s Kitchen, Clif Bar &...
Eating Out: A Date With Glyphosate
A new round of food testing commissioned by GMO Free USA found that glyphosate and its break down product or metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), are pervasive in foods served by major restaurant and fast food chains in the United States. Glyphosate is the...
EHN: Weed Killer Residues Found in 98 Percent of Canadian Honey Samples
As U.S. regulators continue to dance around the issue of testing foods for residues of glyphosate weed killers, government scientists in Canada have found the pesticide in 197 of 200 samples of honey they examined. Source: https://www.ehn.org/ The authors of the...
Irish Examiner: Majority Want Ban on Use of Controversial Glyphosate Weedkillers
Most Irish adults who are familiar with glyphosate are worried about the health effects of the widely used weedkiller and want it banned from use on crops. Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ An opinion poll found that 64% of adults who know about the controversial...
Bloomberg: Monsanto Roundup Attacks Healthy Gut Bacteria, Lawsuit Says
Monsanto Co. has been sued by thousands of farmers and others who blame their cancers on its massively popular Roundup weedkiller. Now Germany’s Bayer AG, which bought the agriculture giant last year, faces a claim that it deceived home gardeners about Roundup’s...
Kellogg Latest to be Targeted in Glyphosate Residue Lawsuit, but Courts Not Proving Very Receptive, Say Attorneys
Kellogg’s has become the latest high-profile food brand to face legal action over the alleged presence of trace levels of the herbicide glyphosate in its products, which the plaintiff argues that reasonable consumers would not expect to see in their foods in any...