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/
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/
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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/
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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/
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