For several years, rumors have been circulating online and through society concerning the presence of the weed killer, glyphosate (trade name Roundup) in breastmilk, but that’s all that they are —rumors. In actuality, the issue has been investigated with proper scientific technique and found to be a non-issue. Glyphosate is not present in dangerous, or even borderline dangerous, concentrations in the breast milk of women from a wide range of locations and situations.
The common misunderstandings about glyphosate and breast milk stem from a couple of bad, very unscientific “studies”. The more recent such study was published in a scientific journal that is peer reviewed (articles are read by other researchers before they are published), but it is not a high ranking journal and the study was conducted and presented in a fairly anti-scientific way.
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Meanwhile, in recent years, a group of actual breast milk researchers ran a proper study on breast milk, using an appropriate chemical analytic method called Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) and guess what. They found no significant levels of glyphosate in breast milk.
But given the fear factor —the idea of a carcinogenic substance in breast milk that infants consume— is just too temping for anti-GMO activists to give up. So they still circulate the myth about glyphosate and breast milk. Don’t fall for such pseudoscience.
