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
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The problem is that we don't really know WHY it's so low. It's more than 10x lower than the next most conservative estimate that I can find, which is California who are usually BY FAR the most conservative anyway 21/
It's very hard for me to understand why they'd consider such low levels a problem, given that there are numerous studies that have not shown an issue even at much higher doses 22/
For some context - the California reference dose of 1.1mg/day is based on their "no significant risk" threshold, which means that an intake of this much is associated with a increase of less than 0.0001% lifetime risk 23/
To put it another way, this means that eating 1.1mg/day of glyphosate would be expected to harm 1 in 100,000 people over the course of 80 years 24/
Blog is now out on thishttps://medium.com/the-method/roundup-isnt-poisoning-your-cheerios-626d61f4c3d8 …
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