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In reply to the discussion: 93% of Americans have glyphosate in their bodies - UC Cal [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Thus it can't be stored in fat, and there's no mechanism to cause it to accumulate in bone as some compounds that resemble or bond to bone components can do.
Also it breaks down rapidly. You can test this for yourself: get a cheap potted plant you don't care about. Kill it with Roundup. Wait as long as the package suggests (for regular Roundup it's less than six weeks, some versions are designed to persist longer) and plant another identical plant in the same soil. It'll live.
Basic science aside, I'm starting to wonder if anybody on DU ever dealt with their own landscaping. This isn't exactly obscure knowledge.
I do hope you get your real health problem figured out. Malathion is nasty stuff, provided you're a med fly or a mosquito. A local politician 'round these parts drank a glass of it and promptly died of a heart attack twelve years later.
There's actually no record at all of it harming anybody, let alone an entire community, has the career-making paper on this event been trapped in peer review for two decades? There's not even a newspaper article about it...
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