Traces of a cancer-causing herbicide found in popular breakfasts in the US

A widely used herbicide, Roundup, which has been recognized as a carcinogen, has been found in a number of breakfast foods sold in US stores.

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After testing 45 products made from oats, the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that all but two of the breakfast cereals contained traces of glyphosate, Monsanto's active ingredient made by Roundup. The Hill.

Glyphosate levels were higher than those that EWG scientists consider safe for children (31 milligrams per day) were found in the 0,01 examined breakfast product.

Cheerios, Quaker Old Fashioned Oats, Quaker Dinosaur Egg Instant Oats and Back to Nature Classic Granola were on the list of products examined.

The World Health Organization has classified glyphosate as a “probable human carcinogen”, although the level of its harmful effects on humans is still being researched and discussed.

The results of the study were published several days after the court ordered Monsanto to pay 289 millions of dollars to a cancer patient to a gardener who claimed to be ill due to frequent contact with the Roundup herbicide.

Monsanto states that glyphosate does not cause cancer and is safe for human use.

The company denies the validity of the findings of the EWG study, stating that the levels found by experts in food are significantly lower than what the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers unsafe.

"An adult would need to eat 118 pounds of these foods every day for the rest of their life to reach the EPA limit," the company said in a statement.

Quaker and General Mills issued similar statements, stressing that their products comply with EPA requirements for the safe level of glyphosate they contain.

EWG President Ken Cook announced that the organization will initiate a review by the EPA of glyphosate policies with a further ban on the use of this product in food crops.

Recall that in early August, a court in California ruled that the biotechnology corporation Monsanto must pay 290 million dollars the gardener who claimed he had cancer because of weed remedies.

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