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There’s posts circulating around reporting that Dr. Damian Marino, a researcher from Argentina, claims that 85% of tampons he tested contain โcancer-causing glyphosateโ and โ62 percent also tested positive for AMPA, the environmental metabolite.โ This data was presented at the โ3rd National Congress of Peoplesโ (another website claims this was presented at the โThird National Congress of Doctors of Fumigated Peoplesโ). Dr. Marino is at the University of La Plata.
I have some issues.
The first is Dr. Marino hasnโt published this data and I canโt find a syllabus from a scientific conference using the search term โ3rd National Congress of Peoplesโ or the โ3rd National Congress of Fumigates Peoples.โ I can only find a video of his talk in Spanish (see below).
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Looking into the matter furtherย the link provided (via Google translate) isnโt an article but appears to be some kind of press release.
Obviously, when researchers make claims about contaminants in products (or about anything) we need to make sure their methodology is sound and their conclusions accurate. Without the methods, data, and their statistical analysis that isnโt possible. Someone saying they did a study doesnโt count.ย However, digging a bit further it appears that Dr. Marino has published in this area in peer-reviewed journals so I will assume that his methodology is sound.
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