No one wants …. to give their children a breakfast that is contaminated with weed killer. That’s why a new report suggesting that popular breakfast products …. contain “unsafe” amounts of “the Roundup chemical” (glyphosate) are garnering attention ….
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The stories all stem from the same report released Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group, titled “Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?” The report …. makes some rather outlandish claims about toxicity, glyphosate, cancer, and breakfast.
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Any substance’s potential to cause harm is directly related to how much of said substance you consume; at a high enough dosage, anything can be harmful …. This is why regulatory bodies assess the threshold at which potentially harmful chemicals actually become dangerous ….
The [EPA] has done this for glyphosate ….The EPA threshold …. is 2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day …. That’s the reference dose that’s considered safe to consume daily throughout a lifetime. None of the foods tested by EWG passes that threshold ….
[EWG] arrived at its number by taking the state of California’s recommendation for a glyphosate threshold …. and dividing it by 100 again. EWG justifies this second cut by relying on the Food Quality Protection Act [which] doesn’t mention glyphosate once, and it’s not clear its recommendation is …. meant to apply to the EPA standard for the chemical
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