Cancer-causing weedkiller found in food, FDA emails reveal

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Crackers, granola and cereal one Food and Drug Administration official brought from his home tested positive for a widely used chemical linked to cancer in 2017 — but the results were never made public, according to a report.

A freedom of information request from The Guardian revealed that chemist Richard Thompson told his colleagues about the test in an internal FDA email from last January when he found glyphosate residue on his food products.

The results have yet to be released.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in hundreds of herbicides, like Roundup, used in food production across the country. More than 200 million pounds of the weedkiller are used annually, according to the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know.

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The makers of Roundup — Monsanto — are currently engaged in a legal battle that will go to court in June. The company is trying to block allegations that glyphosate causes cancer from being released in court.

An official study of the FDA's findings is expected to come later this year or in early 2019 as part of the 2016 residue report — research that's released about every two years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cancer-causing-weedkiller-found-in-food-fda-emails-reveal/ar-AAwymJ1?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. there are now many

copycats for Roundup - glyphosate with other so called inerts.

[Squinch]

2. There is a crowd here at DU that thinks Roundup and Roundup ready crops are the greatest

things since sliced bread. They just stop short of telling us to drink a cup of Roundup for breakfast every day for our health. This should come as good news to them.