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    Weedkiller Found in Granola and Crackers

    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. Thompson, who is based in an FDA regional laboratory in Arkansas, wrote that broccoli was the only food he had "on hand" that he found to be glyphosate-free.

    That internal FDA email, dated January 2017, is part of a string of FDA communications that detail agency efforts to ascertain how much of the popular weedkiller is showing up in American food. The tests mark the agency's first-ever such examination.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nternal-emails

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    Not surprised at all - There seems to be a cancer epidemic, and I've been wondering for years, if it's because of something that we're eating and/or drinking that is contributing to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romans828 View Post
    Not surprised at all - There seems to be a cancer epidemic, and I've been wondering for years, if it's because of something that we're eating and/or drinking that is contributing to it.
    The Bayer corporation manufactures both pesticides/herbicides and pharmaceuticals.

    Get ya sick, keep ya sick.

    https://www.bayer.com/

    They don't hide it.

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    Don't know about you guys, but I LURVE me some Broccoli -

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    They don't hide it.
    I can't remember the chemical but it seems I've read in Dr Mercola's stuff or somewhere about something they use in some foods that they also use for/in pesticide. This isn't a 'discovery', it's well known.

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    The glyphosate comes from desiccating the crops with Roundup at harvest instead of waiting for them to ripen naturally. The residual chemical then makes it into all our grain based food.

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