Organic Consumers
Association
Glyphosate is a broad spectrum, non-selective systemic
herbicide.
“We are increasingly seeing more and more samples
of surface water coming up with residues [of glyphosate], and this is affecting frogs that live there,” Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group, told IPS. “Potatoes and carrots are also picking it up in the soil – there are multiple routes of exposure.”
#Glyphosate has previously been shown to be
an “endocrine disruptor”, which the National Institutes of Health has shown to
have long-term effects on reproductive health. They can be very dangerous at low
levels, thus restricting the amount allowed will not be effective.
Read
the full article:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27826.cfm
Association
Glyphosate is a broad spectrum, non-selective systemic
herbicide.
“We are increasingly seeing more and more samples
of surface water coming up with residues [of glyphosate], and this is affecting frogs that live there,” Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group, told IPS. “Potatoes and carrots are also picking it up in the soil – there are multiple routes of exposure.”
#Glyphosate has previously been shown to be
an “endocrine disruptor”, which the National Institutes of Health has shown to
have long-term effects on reproductive health. They can be very dangerous at low
levels, thus restricting the amount allowed will not be effective.
Read
the full article:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27826.cfm
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