HEADS UP: LAST DAY FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON EPA'S RESPONSE TO GLYPHOSATE
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US government scientists have detected a weedkiller linked to cancer in an array of commonly consumed foods, emails obtained through a freedom of information request show.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been testing food samples for residues of glyphosate, the active ingredient in hundreds of widely used herbicide products, for two years, but has NOT yet released any official results.
But the internal documents obtained by the Guardian show the FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide.
“I have brought wheat crackers, granola cereal and corn meal from home and there’s a fair amount in all of them,” FDA chemist Richard Thompson wrote to colleagues in an email last year regarding glyphosate.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails
LINK FOR FDA FOIA Documents Regarding Glyphosate
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/fda-foia-documents-regarding-glyphosate-residue-testing/
LINK FOR EPA PUBLIC COMMENT:
https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361