潜水简介:
- Glyphosate, an herbicide linked to cancer by California state scientists and the World Health Organization, was found in 43 out of 45 samples of breakfast food products marketed to children made with conventionally grown oats,according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group。
- About one-third of 16 samples made with organically grown oats also had glyphosate. Thirty-one out of 45 samples had glyphosate levels higher than EWG scientists' health benchmark (160 ppb).
- 草甘膦是综述的活性成分，这是孟山都除草剂，它是美国使用最严重的农药。孟山都最近与拜耳合并。上周，加州陪审团命令该公司付款$289 million in damages to a man dying of cancer他说，这是由于他在担任学校地面管理员时反复接触大量的综述和其他基于草甘膦的杂草杀手而引起的。
潜水见解：
In the face of growing consumer demand for free-from, healthy, humanely-treated food, companies whose products have been found to contain traces of glyphosate are in hot water — even without consensus about the effects of the chemical.
For its new report, the EWG conducted toxicology tests on dozens of oat-based foods sold across the country and used a health benchmark for glyphosate based on a cancer risk assessment developed by California state scientists. However, for their findings, the groupset a safety guideline of 0.01 milligram per day。That is more than 100 times less than California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, which currently设置草甘膦摄入量的水平普通成年人每天不带1.1毫克的健康风险。
加利福尼亚的安全水平比环境保护局设定的安全水平要低得多，草甘膦不会引起癌症。
Monsanto also disputes the cancer-causing claim,在声明中说, "glyphosate does not cause cancer" and "has a more than 40-year history of safe use." The公司引用了研究直接地，说：“即使在最高水平上报告……成年人每天都必须每天吃118磅的食品，以达到EPA的极限。”
尽管如此，世界卫生组织说草甘膦是一种“可能的致癌物”，和California lists it as a chemical“该州已知会引起癌症。”Last week in California, a jury ordered the company behind the weed killer to向一名男子支付2.89亿美元的损失after he claimed the company's weed killers caused his cancer.
Regardless of the scale used, the trace amounts of the chemical found in the oat-based products may not harm a full-grown adult who consumes these foods on occasion. However, trends indicate that households with more vulnerable children and elderly members are更可能消耗谷物。
PepsiCo-owned Quaker responded that it works hard to cleanse the oats it uses in its products through processing.
“贵格会教徒不会增加草甘膦的任何部分the milling process," the company said in a statement, which was由CNN引用。“ ...任何可能保留的草甘膦都显着低于任何限制，并且符合环境保护署（EPA）和欧洲委员会设定的安全标准，这是对人类消费的安全性。”
Cereal isn't the only product to have recently been tarnished by glyphosate residue, which is a constant issue for CPG companies. Last year, the Organic Consumers Association said itfound the chemical in Ben & Jerry's ice cream。该公司回答说，它将有效地确定残留物的起源。通用磨坊战斗并赢得了有关草甘膦的标签诉讼。去年，联邦法官抛出了集体诉讼消费者表示，由于草甘膦残留物，该公司的自然谷格兰诺拉麦片酒吧无法被标记为“自然”。
While ice cream and granola bar sales don't appear to have suffered from the glyphosate reports, it remains unknown if this study will make an impact on bottom lines. Still, companies whose products that aren’t touched by glyphosate could take advantage of a potential "pesticide-free" marketing push — maybe even pursuing aglyphosate-free certification。
它将应该应该那些产品的公司doshow traces of this glyphosate to work toward cleaning up their products and finding less controversial alternatives to the chemical. In this case, being proactive may spare them the trouble of lawsuits and damaged reputations down the line.
