Parents Should Not Be Freaking Out About Glyphosate In Their Kids' Food

Remember a couple of months ago when it was called "a hefty dose" of glyphosate, the active ingredient in such products as Roundup, Cheerios and Quaker Oats? Quaker and General Mills (gis) were not happy, arguing that any trace of glyphosate in their products.

Well, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has made a comeback with other non-peer-reviewed studies, this time covering oat-based cereals and other food that's marketed to children. Quaker and General Mills, Quaker and General Mills, Quaker and General Mills, Quaker and General Mills . "

"EWG scientists consider the protective effects of glyphosate at levels higher than that of EWG scientists considered protective of children's health with an adequate margin of safety," the organization said. It tested 28 products-all of which were made from conventionally grown, i.e. non-organic, oats and glyphosate-free levels below its self-authored benchmark of 160 parts per billion.

"If those companies would just switch to glyphosate, parents would not have to wonder if their kids were getting a chemical linked to cancer," said EWG president Ken Cook.

The thing is, the EWG's limit is the way the protection of the environment. For oats, the EPA says anything up to 30 parts per million is safe. That's 187 times the EWG's safety limit, and 10 times the glyphosate levels found in Quaker's Oatmeal Squares Honey Nut, the worst offender on the list released by the lobbying group on Wednesday.

The debate over organic vs. "conventionally grown" foods is complex and multifaceted, and there is clearly some cause for concern over the long-term effects of glyphosate, as evidenced by the repeated verdicts against Bayer's Monsanto over Roundup-this week's Californian court upheld a prior ruling that said the substance of the cause of the disease of a school groundskeeper who regularly came into contact with it.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer said in 2015 that glyphosate has been "probably carcinogenic to humans," and the following year has resulted in a risk of cancer. through the diet. "This was in line with the findings of the European Food Safety Authority.

The simple fact is that, they are unsafe because they carry small traces of glyphosate residue. Parents concerned about protecting their kids from carcinogenic substances might be better than freight about proven dangers, such as air pollution.