CDC's Study Found Glyphosate In Majority Of Americans' Urine

CDC's Study Found Glyphosate In Majority Of Americans' Urine

Introduction

According to recent research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of Americans had residues of the weed-killing chemical glyphosate in their urine.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discovered glyphosate in 1,885 of 2,310 urine samples that were representative of the general population. Children between the ages of six and 18 made up about one-third of the samples.

The most frequently used herbicide in the nation, according to a toxicologist at the Environmental Working Group, glyphosate, has relatively little information on exposure up until this point. She went on to say that kids in the US are practically daily exposed to this cancer-causing weedkiller through the food they consume.

The widely used Roundup brand, which was acquired by German pharmaceutical firm Bayer when it acquired American agricultural juggernaut, Monsanto, in 2018, has the weed-killing substance as its active component.

The Supreme Court rejected Bayer's request last month to end hundreds of cases alleging that the weedkiller causes cancer. The justices of the high court upheld a $25 million verdict in favor of a California man who said that years of using Roundup on his property caused him to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

A federal appeals court ordered the EPA to revisit its conclusions last month after the EPA determined in 2020 that glyphosate did not represent a severe health concern and is not likely to cause cancer in people. Nevertheless, Bayer has prevailed in four straight state court proceedings against plaintiffs who claimed that Roundup caused their cancer, with a recent decision going in its favor in Oregon.

Glyphosate has been labeled as possibly carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. Bayer, on the other hand, has defended its product. The CDC report, according to a company spokeswoman, further supports the minimal levels of glyphosate exposure experienced by people.