Anti-GMO Ecologist magazine claims ‘extreme levels’ of glyphosate residue in GM soy

Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health.

Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants – even after nearly 20 years on the market.

In research recently published by our laboratory (Bøhn et al. 2014) we collected soybean samples grown under three typical agricultural conditions: organic, GM, and conventional (but non-GM). The GM soybeans were resistant to the herbicide Roundup, whose active ingredient is glyphosate.

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All the GM samples had Roundup residues – the others did not. To accommodate high levels of Roundup residues in GM soya, limits were raised 200-fold – with no scientific justification and ignoring growing evidence of toxicity. What Monsanto calls ‘extreme levels’ are now the norm – but only in GM crops.

Read the full, original article: ‘Extreme levels’ of Roundup are the norm in GMO soya