CDC study finds glyphosate, controversial ingredient found in weedkillers including popular Roundup brand, present in samples
Both the amount and prevalence of glyphosate found in human urine has been rising steadily since the 1990s when Monsanto Co. introduced genetically engineered crops designed to be sprayed directly with Roundup,published in 2017 by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers.
Monsanto and the company that bought it in 2018, Bayer, have maintained that glyphosate and Roundup products are safe, and that residues in food and in human urine are not a health risk. The US Environmental Protection Agency has taken the opposite stance, classifying glyphosate as not likely to be carcinogenic. But last month a federal appeals courtvacating the agency’s safety determination and ordering the agency to give “further consideration” to evidence of glyphosate risks.
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