Toxic Truth: New Evidence for Banning Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller

10 May 2018 — Organic Consumers Association

ESSAY OF THE WEEK

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man holding a gold mask in the shape of a gas maskMonsanto’s Roundup weedkiller may be even worse for human health than we thought.

As reported this week in the Guardian, new tests show that when Roundup’s key active ingredient, glyphosate, is combined with other chemicals to create the final product, the herbicide is more toxic to human cells than glyphosate alone.

U.S. Right to Know’s Carey Gillam reported on the first-ever testing, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), of glyphosate-based formulations. Previous testing focused exclusively on glyphosate in isolation.

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Shocking Study Shows Glyphosate Herbicides Contain Toxic Levels of Arsenic

7 January 2018 — Sustainable Pulse

A shocking new study published in Toxicology Reports has shown that the current regulatory assessments of the world’s most used herbicides are wrong, with ingredients such as arsenic being regularly found in Glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides at toxic levels.

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