Food Testing

Glyphosate is ubiquitous throughout the food supply in many countries. It is used on crops that have been genetically modified to be resistant to the effects of glyphosate, as well as a tool to dry out grains, sugar, and beans just before harvest.

Glyphosate is never used alone - glyphosate is a key ingredient in a formulated product called a glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH), commonly referred to as “Roundup”. The other chemicals in the formulated product are also harmful, particularly in the US formulation that includes Polyethoxylated tallow amine (POEA). POEA is banned in Europe due to its toxicity.

The highly toxic glyphosate and POEA combination has no place in our food supply. As explored elsewhere in the Health section of Glyphosate Facts, independent, peer-reviewed research on the health damage from GBH exposure is abundant.

Many will argue that dietary exposure is well below regulatory limits and therefore harmless. However, those limits are set arbitrarily, and in fact have crept up over time at the request of farming groups trying to manage superweeds and desiccate grains. Endocrine disruption, in particular, is created through low dose, repeated glyphosate exposure.

If you are eating in the United States or Canada, you are likely exposed to glyphosate. In the following study from the CDC, glyphosate was detected in 81% of urine samples.