lets talk about the preharvest application of glyphosate to wheat, how much glyphosate is in our food, and how it affects us.
Feb 26 2019 On the cover of USA Today (below the fold) And the second line reads “Report says herbicide is probable catchinogen” and goes on to reference IARC. The potential cause of finding it in an organic product is blamed on tainted rainwater. The concept of Preharvest application was not mentioned. Ad below this line
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It really shouldn’t come as a surprise anymore. We might be harder pressed to identify foods that do not contain glyphosate anymore. The New York Times is reporting that the Organic Consumers Association has found glyphosate in 10 of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Levels in the ice cream were found to be well below the EPA […]
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So now we know that food in Canada was tested by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for glyphosate and the result is: lots of food has glyphosate in it. Yum. Some food tested has amounts that exceed the MRL (Maximum Residue Limits) set by Health Canada for food safety. Yum. So, what exactly did the CFIA do to the food […]
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The report “Safeguarding with Science: Glyphosate Testing in 2015-2016” authored by the Food Safety Science Directorate of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has leaked. Its a 5 page pdf that was emailed to US-RTK (Right to Know). It has been reported on by the Western Producer and Carey Gillam at the Huffington Post. These sites report that the authenticity was […]
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Hoping to learn something about which foods have levels of glyphosate that exceed our arbitrary and likely too high maximum residue levels? Waiting for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency report to finally give us the info we have been waiting for? Keep on waiting… Because the Western Producer is reporting that the report will exclude details. Why? For “confidentiality reasons”! […]
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This is an interesting article in the Manitoba Co-operator about the Canadian Grain Commission testing for glyphosate for export markets, “especially the high value Asian markets”. It emphasizes the vigilance required to satisfy our international grain customers. As far as I can tell, no one is testing the food in the domestic food chain. As a Canadian food product consumer, […]
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Tony Mitra’s analysis of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency glyphosate test results is now available in e-book! It is provocatively titled: POISON FOODS OF NORTH AMERICA: Guide to navigating the glyphosate mine field in our food web He pulls no punches and includes a rant about the over cautious use of the words TOXIC and POSION to describe glyphosate. According to […]
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Tony’s review of the Canadian testing continues. What I found interesting: No wheat tested. No bread. No pasta. No wheat products. Weird choice not to test. Might have gone a long way to helping people reacting to wheat products realize maybe its not the gluten! Quoting Tony: “There are 20 samples tested with Garbanzo – not one of them are […]
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I think we have all seen the recent spate of articles about the study linking glyphosate to liver disease in rats. Yes, worrisome, but we have seen scary study results before. But this study is uniquely scary in a few ways. This Daily Mail article brought them to my attention. Consider these worrisome quotes from the article: Dr Robin Mesnage, […]
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Tony got the Canadian Food Inspection Agency testing results. And he took the time to make a video walking us through the data. Thanks CFIA and Tony! Here is the beginning of his ongoing analysis of the report: http://www.tonu.org/2017/01/08/cfia-glyphosatetest/ Ad below this line:
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