How Widespread Is Roundup®? Is It In Your Urine?
According to urine tests taken in the European Union rather recently, 48 members of the EU Parliament volunteered to have their urine tested and ALL tests came back positive! [1]
According to the article titled “We are pissed off” [1],
The Biocheck lab in Leipzig that carried out the ‘Elisa test’ concluded: “All participants excreted glyphosate by urine. This means that glyphosate could be also a health problem of EU-parliament members.” [….}
On average, the MEPs had 1.7 micrograms/litre of glyphosate in their urine, 17 times higher than the European drinking water norm (0.1 microgram/litre). This means that everyone we tested was way above the limit for residues of pesticides in drinking water.
Additionally, No less than 99.6% of all citizens who took part in this survey had higher residue levels. This means that virtually all citizens are contaminated with glyphosate. [….]
Its use around the world keeps increasing, especially due to its link to genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant crops. Since the introduction of “Roundup Ready” in 1996, glyphosate use has increased 15-fold. In 2014, global use was 825,000 tonnes of which 76% was for agricultural use and 24% non-agricultural uses (e.g. public gardens, railways, private gardens).
What’s happening elsewhere, like in California, USA?
According to urine samples tested at the University of California San Francisco, 93 percent of those tests came back positive for glyphosate residues! [2]
Furthermore, The Detox Project claims,
Glyphosate has never been studied by regulators or the chemical industry at levels that the human population in the U.S. is being exposed to (under 3 mg/kg body weight/day). This is a huge hole in the global risk assessment of glyphosate, as there is evidence suggesting that low levels of the chemical may hack hormones even more than at mid and high levels, according to independent science – a higher dose does not necessarily make a more toxic, hormone disruptive effect.
Glyphosate is a hormone disruptor!
Here is a 23-page report titled “When the dose doesn’t make the poison: low dose effects & endocrine disrupting chemicals” authored by Laura N Vandenberg, PhD, of Tufts University. The charts and graphics in that report ought to impress upon everyone the absolute importance of eating organically-grown food and discontinuing using herbicides and other toxic sprays that pollute the air and water too.
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