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The known carcinogen and infamous weed killing chemical glyphosate\u00a0has just been found in breakfast foods marketed for children. A new study has discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas, and snack bars.<\/p>\n
Concern\u00a0over glyphosate has continued to grow<\/a>\u00a0in the United States in recent years.\u00a0 Although the chemical may be safe in some amounts to spray on weeds if certain safety precautions are taken, it is probably a lot more dangerous if it\u2019s ingested by a child. Most disturbing, however, is the fact that thirty-one out of 45 tested products had levels of glyphosate that were higher than what many scientists consider safe for children.<\/p>\n The study, which was conducted by the non-profit\u00a0Environmental Working Group\u00a0<\/a>(EWG) found that many of the breakfast foods marketed to children contain glyphosate.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI was shocked,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Lowry, who heads the Council on Environmental Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Although not much is known about the effects of the chemical on children, parents and doctors are concerned.\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t know a lot about the effects of glyphosate on children,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cAnd essentially we\u2019re just throwing it at them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know,<\/strong>\u201d said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at EWG, according to\u00a0CBS News.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Faber has been working to improve food safety standards for more than a decade. He said he and his team at EWG conducted the study which included a lab test involving \u201c45 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats.\u201d The researchers found glyphosate, which is the active\u00a0ingredient in the Monsanto weed-killer Roundup,<\/a>\u00a0in all but two of the products.<\/p>\n EWG used it\u2019s own very stringent standards of safe levels of glyphosate when testing the products, which should also be noted. Because of that, in response to EWG\u2019s study, Monsanto said, \u201ceven at the highest level reported\u2026 an adult would have to eat 118 pounds of the food item every day for the rest of their life in\u00a0order to reach the EPA\u2019s limit\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for glyphosate residues. Just last week, in fact, a jury in California ordered Monsanto to\u00a0pay one man $289 million in damages<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after his lawsuit claimed the company\u2019s\u00a0weedkillers caused his cancer.\u00a0EWG\u2019s Faber is skeptical of EPA\u2019s glyphosate limits.<\/p>\n The World Health Organization says glyphosate is a \u201cprobable carcinogen,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and California lists it as a chemical \u201cknown to the state to cause cancer.\u201d\u00a0Monsanto continues to dispute the claim that the chemical\u00a0is carcinogenic, saying in a statement, \u201cglyphosate does not cause cancer\u201d and \u201chas a more than 40-year history of safe use.\u201d<\/p>\n As the debate over glyphosate\u2019s safety continues, it isn\u2019t likely to see tests on the stuff cease anytime soon. And Faber isn\u2019t the only person concerned over its possible carcinogenic effects.\u00a0 \u201cIt is time now for them to step up and do their jobs to ban glyphosate,\u201d said Zen Honeycutt,\u00a0who heads Moms Across America,<\/a>\u00a0a group formed to raise awareness about toxic exposures. \u201cWe want to trust that what is in the grocery store is safe and the shocking reality is that in many cases it\u2019s not,\u201d Honeycutt said.<\/p>\n