Following last week’s stunning news that a California jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to a man dying of cancer, which he says was caused by his repeated exposure to large quantities of Roundup and other glyphosate-based weed killers while working as a school groundskeeper, Environmental Working Group released the results of their testing of breakfast cereals for glyphosate.
“Glyphosate, an herbicide linked to cancer by California state scientists and the World Health Organization, was found in all but two of 45 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats. Almost three-fourths of those samples had glyphosate levels higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children’s health with an adequate margin of safety. About one-third of 16 samples made with organically grown oats also had glyphosate, all at levels well below EWG’s health benchmark.”
I’d like to phrase this from a different viewpoint.
45 samples of conventional-grown oats:
43 samples contained glyphosate
31 of the samples had glyphosate levels higher that what is considered safe
16 samples made with organically-grown oats
5 samples contained glyphosate
all were lower than what is considered safe
This tells us that if you eat organic, it’s more likely than not that you won’t be eating glyphosate. But even if you do, it will be at levels considered by EWG to be below the safe levels for children.
EWG: Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?
Click on link above for more about the testing and a chart of the levels found in various brand-name samples.
