Glyphosate found in Human Urine

http://www.ithaka-journal.net/herbizide-im-urin?lang=en

snip:

Glyphosate is the main active substance used in most commercial herbicides. It poisons not only plants, but also animals and humans. When testing for glyphosate contamination in an urban population, a German university found significant contamination in all urine samples with levels 5 to 20 times above the legal limit for drinking water.

 

That makes for frightening reading Dim.

 

sadly, not much comes close to roundup when you have loads of weeds .... some say white vinegar with a strength of at least 20% is also very good (and much cheaper), but I have never tried that

 

Weeds are one thing, but spraying a crop days before it goes into the Human food chain is downright criminal.

 

I'd always thought that Glyphosate worked by speeding up the plants growth to a point that the plant gives up and dies, not so?

 

Just to balance things out, I'm going to come at this from another angle

I haven't read the full article, just the bit Dim quoted.

It seems to me, that while I don't think anyone wants to ingest glyphosate, surely the fact that it is still glyphosate when it comes back out of the body means that the body simply passed it through as is?

There are several chemicals in wee that sound nasty (and maybe are, I'm not a scientist). It would be easy to make a story about traces of nitrates and phosphates being found in wee.

 

While its going through though, it can break down the building blocks of your body, make you sterile & give you cancer.

 

Most of us have lived through the DDT years, and all the other nasty chemicals that came later and are now banned.
Its not worth getting in a flap about a bit glyphosate.

Think of all the other nasties you ingest every day in much higher quantities.

Traffic fumes probably being the one that most of us take in, and have done for years.

 

In the absence of citations to a .EDU or a learned scientific publication its just Rant.

"a German university" - unnamed? no link to the actual research? not even any research scientists identified by name??

Sorry Dim, but without corroboration this is just junk. Lots of sites like that, the links go round in circles back to themselves; I never take them seriously.

From Wikipedia (there are citations to the supporting material on Wikipedia if you want to check them):

"Roundup has a United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ (EPA) Toxicity Class of III (on a I to IV scale, where IV is least dangerous) for oral and inhalation exposure"

i.e. its pretty benign. The surfactants in the formulation are likely to do you greater harm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects

 

if you read the link properly, you would have seen the link to the citated report ... here it is again:

http://www.ithaka-journal.net/druckversionen/e052012-herbicides-urine.pdf

you need to do a bit more research on google about companies such as Montsanto ... don't just read whats printed in the daily mail