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Glyphosate
Level 5 — High concernIn Winter's Dictionary2 sources
Glyphosate is a pesticide residue — Broad spectrum, postemergent herbicide used in animal feed
What it does
Broad spectrum, postemergent herbicide used in animal feed
Where you'll see it
Dried citrus pulp, soybean hulls, sugarcane molasses
What the research says
[metabolical] Glycine analog incorporated into plant proteins, inhibiting the shikimate pathway and lowering the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan in food — depleting precursors of serotonin and dopamine. Disrupts the human gut microbiome (bacteria are plants metabolically) causing dysbiosis, leaky gut, inflammation. Alters DNA methylation patterns, driving transgenerational obesity in offspring. WHO IARC reclassified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015.
Regulatory status
- Notes: FDA residues 0.4-30 ppm depending on product
Sources
- Metabolical (Lustig) — Chapter 20: Monsanto knew as early as 1985 that glyphosate had carcinogenic potential in animals, but did nothing about it… in 2015 the WHO reclassified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in humans
- A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): a broad spectrum, postemergent herbicide used in animal feed