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an FOI request recently revealed that multiple instances of glyphosate found in various off-the-grocery-shelf foods by EPA researchers, was not released as data to other scientists - nor have the American public been informed that a human carcinogen has entered our food-chain, in higher than acceptable levels. // The info was circulated only in internal e-mails, & a higher-ranked EPA official told his subordinates that the tests "weren't done on official samples", & thus couldn't be publicized.
These tests were done in 2016 & 2017 - glyphosate was found in crackers, granola, corn, & cereal -- & we're hearing about it now, in 2018, only via a Freedom of Info Act request by the Guardian newspaper.
WTH?!?!
Cancer-causing weedkiller found in popular foods, FDA internal email reveals
When U find higher-than-permitted levels of a carcinogen in food, UNofficially, & U're an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S.A., charged with oversight & protection of the air, water, soil, flora, & fauna of a nation, shouldn't U then test some foods OFFICIALLY to determine how widespread the contamination is? - or just how much of the contaminant is present, & in which foods? That would seem logical - also, any finding of contamination that exceeds allowable limits is *supposed* to be reported to the FDA, & no-one reported any of these incidents.
MonsLanto - makers of 'Round-Up', the ubiquitous herbicide with thousands of imitators worldwide, all using glyphosate as the active ingredient - is currently struggling to block allegations that glyphosate causes cancer, from being released in court.
Their case will come to trial in June.
I am very disheartened that the very ppl we pay to protect our part of the world, haven't the guts to face the fact of environmental contamination, once they've FOUND it - to then actively look for it, quantify it, determine where it came from, & how to stop it.
The EPA & FDA are no longer consumer-protection agencies; they are shills for the chemical, petroleum, mining & other extractive industries, manufacturing, & industrial corporations, & are in fact arrayed with them against the very citizens who pay their wages, provide their funds, & depend upon them.
- terry
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an FOI request recently revealed that multiple instances of glyphosate found in various off-the-grocery-shelf foods by EPA researchers, was not released as data to other scientists - nor have the American public been informed that a human carcinogen has entered our food-chain, in higher than acceptable levels. // The info was circulated only in internal e-mails, & a higher-ranked EPA official told his subordinates that the tests "weren't done on official samples", & thus couldn't be publicized.
These tests were done in 2016 & 2017 - glyphosate was found in crackers, granola, corn, & cereal -- & we're hearing about it now, in 2018, only via a Freedom of Info Act request by the Guardian newspaper.
WTH?!?!
Cancer-causing weedkiller found in popular foods, FDA internal email reveals
When U find higher-than-permitted levels of a carcinogen in food, UNofficially, & U're an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S.A., charged with oversight & protection of the air, water, soil, flora, & fauna of a nation, shouldn't U then test some foods OFFICIALLY to determine how widespread the contamination is? - or just how much of the contaminant is present, & in which foods? That would seem logical - also, any finding of contamination that exceeds allowable limits is *supposed* to be reported to the FDA, & no-one reported any of these incidents.
MonsLanto - makers of 'Round-Up', the ubiquitous herbicide with thousands of imitators worldwide, all using glyphosate as the active ingredient - is currently struggling to block allegations that glyphosate causes cancer, from being released in court.
Their case will come to trial in June.
I am very disheartened that the very ppl we pay to protect our part of the world, haven't the guts to face the fact of environmental contamination, once they've FOUND it - to then actively look for it, quantify it, determine where it came from, & how to stop it.
The EPA & FDA are no longer consumer-protection agencies; they are shills for the chemical, petroleum, mining & other extractive industries, manufacturing, & industrial corporations, & are in fact arrayed with them against the very citizens who pay their wages, provide their funds, & depend upon them.
- terry
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