According to a recent report by the environmental working group 26 of the 28 cereal snack bar and oat products it did tests on had trace amounts of glyphosate which is the active ingredient in roundup that is suspected of causing serious health problems including cancer.
List of food products containing glyphosate.
Glyphosate is a carcinogenic chemical that can be found in an alarming number of food products.
These organizations commissioned tests that found high glyphosate levels in many foods sold in america including some certified organic and non gmo products.
Traces have even been found in companies that employ the organic label.
The glyphosate in food list contains breakfast cereals such as quaker oatmeal squares instant oatmeal cinnamon spice snack bar quaker chewy s mores and many more foods.
Foods that contain glyphosate.
By voting with your dollar and opting out of foods that contain this chemical you are telling monsanto you don t want it.
Unfortunately glyphosate use is so rampant that some organic foods may contain small amounts of glyphosate residues.
Another recent study of glyphosate an oat products found that 5 of 16 popular organic oats or oat based products contained glyphosate residue.
Glyphosate was found to be present on most of the oat based foods tested including organic products.
Think about what you buy and consume.
Cereals and cereal products in particular bread was the major contributing food category to glyphosate dietary exposures for australians and for babies it was infant cereal.
In a 2017 report the canadian food inspection agency said it detected traces of herbicide in nearly 29 7 percent of the 3 188 food products it tested.
Damaging herbicide drift can travel far especially when it is applied in mornings when the spray gets hung up and moves with the air mass across fields due to air temperature differences 8.
This is the second time ewb has done this testing.
An earlier report came out in august 2018 that found related results.