The EWG cites "additional factors" that led to the number of 160 nanograms/day, but it's very hard to know what that actually means 8/pic.twitter.com/ccBFjhpuVd
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The EWG cites "additional factors" that led to the number of 160 nanograms/day, but it's very hard to know what that actually means 8/pic.twitter.com/ccBFjhpuVd
Meanwhile, the EPA and other international agencies have detailed risk assessments that have been used to calculate the 1-2mg/day dose 9/ i.e. https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/glyphosate/earlier-assessment_en … https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/reregistration/fs_PC-417300_1-Sep-93.pdf … https://apvma.gov.au/node/13891
So all of the stories that reported "unsafe" or similar were basing that on the EWG assessment, which is not accepted by any government agency in the world that I know of 10/
These stories all also reported the IARC figure, that glyphosate is a "probable carcinogen" to imply that it causes cancer (SCARY!) 11/pic.twitter.com/xZl2c49HDQ
But what they failed to mention is that glyphosate is only a "probable" carcinogen at MUCH higher doses than found in this study, even over a lifetime 12/
Glyphosate may, potentially, cause cancer, but so far the risk has only ever been seen in humans for people who use the pesticide every day for years, not in people who consume glyphosate-containing foods 13/
I wrote a blog about this if you want the specifics, but the basic story is that glyphosate/cancer would only be a worry if you were eating hundreds of kilos of breakfast cereals a day for an entire lifetime 14/
To recap: 1. Breakfast cereals may have up to 800ppb of glyphosate in them 2. To get an "unsafe" amount - as defined by most experts - you'd have to eat 20kg+ of these cereals a day 3. Current best evidence doesn't support a link between glyphosate and cancer for most people 15/
SO you're saying I should probably eat less than 20kg of cereal a day? Is that like, "every" day or can I do one of those 5/2 things?
If you can manage 20kg of breakfast cereals a day I'd say go ahead the glyphosate isn't going to be your primary issue 
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