10/11/2022
Autumn
A recent study found that 87% of children tested had detectable levels of the omnipresent and toxic herbicide glyphosate in their urine. Food is the main route of exposure to glyphosate for children. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup, the weedkiller most widely used by conventional agriculture worldwide.
Children in the U.S. are regularly exposed to this cancer-causing weedkiller through the food they eat virtually every day. In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC) classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” In 2019, another study connected glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and recommended monitoring children’s exposure to this toxic weedkiller.
Yet the EPA has done nothing about this problem. They have continuously ignored many of those studies and the conclusion by the IARC. Instead, the agency has repeatedly sided with the pesticide industry and downplayed the risks of glyphosate exposure to human health.
