Some evidence suggests that it has an effect on mitochondrial function. In an experiment a few years ago, Kurrasch and her colleagues exposed zebrafish embryos to relatively low concentrations of glyphosate during specific windows of development. This appeared to alter mitochondrial function and cause a related decrease in basal respiration, which in turn impaired the locomotion of larvae. Some other studies also suggest that glyphosate can reduce mitochondrial function as well as sperm motility in zebrafish at high concentrations, and can alter neurotransmitter activity in the brains of rats.
Other researchers stress that the immediate toxicity of glyphosate is likely very low at most environmental concentrations, in contrast to the whole pesticide formulation it is usually used in. This spurred Kurrasch to compare the effects of glyphosate alone to the effects of Roundup containing the same glyphosate concentration in zebrafish. Remarkably, she found Roundup had the opposite effect as glyphosate by itself: The fish moved more, and basal respiration was higher.
They also had different gene-expression profiles of mitochondria-linked genes in their brains. In the U. What concerns Fitsanakis, whose work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, are the findings of previous studies that the commercially available product is much more toxic to cells and animals in the lab than glyphosate alone.
Instead of trying to tease out which of the chemicals in the mixture are doing what, Fitsanakis has decided to look at the effects of glyphosate-based herbicides in the formulations farmers use. Studies report conflicting findings about the health effects of Roundup. Farmers who work closely with the weed killer seem to be at the highest risk. The main foods that contain glyphosate are genetically modified GM , glyphosate-resistant crops, such as corn, soybeans, canola, alfalfa and sugar beets 1.
One recent study found that all 10 genetically modified soy samples examined contained high levels of glyphosate residues On the other hand, samples from conventional and organically grown soybeans did not contain any residues. Roundup and glyphosate residues are mainly found in genetically modified crops, including corn, soy, canola, alfalfa and sugar beets.
Studies show that direct contact with Roundup may cause health issues, including a greater risk of developing a cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma. If you do work with Roundup or similar products, then make sure to wear gloves and take other steps to minimize your exposure. However, the glyphosate in food is another matter.
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Health Conditions Discover Plan Connect. Go figure…. Good luck researching. It just infuriates me that known poisons like this that cause cancer and many other illnesses is allowed to be sold to humans that is he government is to protect. You tree huggers would ban everything if you could. I laugh at you tree huggers because how many of you smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol or take drugs?
How many of you drive cars? How many of you use electricity? All of you, is the answer. I once saw a tree hugger do an interview about baby seals being killed. She was outside ranting and raving and just then an insect flew on her face.
What do you think she did? She swatted at it trying to kill it, just like everyone else would do!!! The answer for you tree huggers is always the same — sue industries and put them out of business so many people lose their jobs.
Lawyers — who are the most crooked people in this country, by the way — love you because you line their pockets with millions of dollars. Get this and get it straight! The minute it goes against the disinformation and revisionist theology.
Then the EPA must be corrupt and that money is controlling what they are saying. Not only do they consistently fail to come close to the minimum requirements to conclude any causal relationship, their record for replications is utterly abysmal.
You need to realize that there is a VERY different burden of proof to conclude causation between the US civil courts, as compared to science as a whole. In the US, civil courts abide by the jurisprudence established by In re Winship , where a mere preponderance of evidence is sufficient to determine cause and effect. To conclude causation, one must show a statistically significant increase in negative health effects between treatment and control groups, using a sample and exposure range sufficient to establish a consistent, dose-dependent response.
Gregory Perry, thank you for the time you took to lay this out…please consider publishing it more widely. This is a hugely important set of points that need more exposure. You mentioned the human microflora and the potential for interfering with the respiration of some of those organism. I have read anecdotal accounts of the soil microflora suffering under repeated applications of glyphosate.
Are you familiar with any studies on that topic? I have not looked at that. We do know that glyphosate has a short half-life in soil and it attaches to soil, which would suggest it is not a big problem. Im a horticulturalist. I was trained to use protective gear, and taught the proper use of chemical application. It drives me nuts seeing people wandering about their yards, unprotected spraying willy-nilly…and worse, on windy days.
The blame lies not on the chemicals, the blame is solely on the person mis-applying the chemical. Keep emotion out of this debate. The instructions on the label are clear and do not state… Spray this in your face. So how do you feel about Roundup ready soy? Organic farmers report their crops have massive swaths of burn when a neighbouring farmer sprays. I dont have firsthand knowledge of this nor if glyphosate is actually what was sprayed sounds like dicamba to me.
But PPE or not, on an industrial level it makes no sense that everyone has to switch to a GMO soy because some farmers want Roundup ready soy. The choice should always be according to the person, and it seems wrong that others would suffer from those choices. Glyphosate has been shown to be quite nasty to fungal populations in the soil. Depending on the succession of plants you want to grow, it is counterproductive to allow them to die off.
Here a summary of one of those studies. When an article does not include a link to the research they are discussing, they can say anything they want, and it is not a reliable article.
What many researchers have found is that the combination of the adjunctive surfactants e. MONO added to a glyphosate formulation can be far more toxic than the glyphosate by itself, particularly to trout fish. Surfactants are added to increase plant uptake of glyphosate and thus, the killing efficacy of the formulation.
Unfortunately, they also negatively affect the gills of fish. Unfortunately, modern science is only beginning to understand the importance of fungi and bacteria to maintaining good soil health and human health. One more comment please? The common sense question to ask is, why would any company NOT want to thoroughly test its own products? What company would want to hide toxicity which would surely result in lawsuits, bad publicity, and tossing out all of their investment?
That would make the stock holders very angry. RU is a product which helps us produce food on a massive scale to support 7 billion people! I love the environment, grow a lot of my own food, and am as green a liberal as you could meet. It is turning out to be a fact the science is emerging that bird feeders are not actually good for birds…people HATE the idea of giving up those, even if it may mean birds do better.
The major bird groups are heavily subsidized by bird food and feeder manufacturers, so the science does not get much coverage there. The thing is, people get an idea in their head and it sticks there, and then they gather information that confirms their previously held beliefs. That is NOT science. Folks, the war on facts is a quick trip to the middle-ages. When green liberals fail to use facts to drive their agenda, it undermines our ability to actually do anything constructive, and we and our unfounded opinions become worse than the RU itself.
It is good to beware of political agendas and money interests that negate the science or try to confuse it. To call someone a shill without proving the relationship is also not proving anything factual. If you hurl an accusation, it is YOUR job to prove it. It concerns me to no end that we simply dismiss it out of hand or make the scientist the villain…in a time when the world is being impacted by several huge problems that only science will save us from.
Yes — that is what I did. How likely is that? I still use it on my farm. But the argument about the use for 20 years and being played off. And I am not saying you are. But how long did the public use cigarette? And I remember the ads from doc. Saying use menthol cigarettes when you were sick instead of the normal ones. So going by what any one or group says can be dangerous.
This world is full of uneducated haters that only believe what they want to! They have no evidence of the untruths they believe in and have no intension of facing reality. Could you please provide some references for these claims? Thank you. Even worse than DDT and you should know how that played out. And how many people do you wish to starve? So are you offering not to eat? Heavy use of Roundup Concentrate spraying football field size grounds over and over again 4 year after year under the gallons a month or year will definitely cause cancer.
Did you not read the post? This has been studied thousands of times and there is no such evidence. There is actually a LOT of evidence, which you conveniently decided to omit completely from your article. Furthermore, you have also neglected to mention the controversy surrounding Monsanto covertly funding many of the studies which show no harmful effects of the substance.
They may have funded some studies, but do you really feel that they paid off every one of the thousands of scientists that made a study on this?
And they they need to pay off all of the reviewers of these studies. They do nothing but propose hypotheses and then never test them experimentally to see if they can be validated. As for the other studies, which of them show a causal relationship between glyphosate exposure at or below the ADI and NHL that comply with the standards and GLP in toxicology? Glyphosate has been with us for 40 years or more …parts per million will not harm anyone..
This is something the general population does not understand. The pesticides we used 40 years ago were much more toxic. Hi everyone Roundup kills life. Last time I looked I am part of life. The farmers need to use roundup to make a living. So the producers can produce cheap food. I like to be able to have choices. There just so many different views. I just find it enjoyable tilling up my soil and getting on my hands and knees pulling the unwanted weeds.
I no my vegetables taste different than the ones I get from the store. Stay safe stay strong stay healthy. You certainly launched a storm of gobbledegook there Robert. Thanks for article, especially knowing some of the responses it would generate.
To Jo B. The problem is not the effect of glyphosate on humans. There are too many of them already. Nobody is spraying Roundup on wild fields — it costs money.
They spray it on fields that are used for agriculture and the weeds will be destroyed one way or the other. Before Roundup we used much more toxic chemicals, but we still killed the weeds. You are part of the problem. I got glyphosate poisoning wading in farm flood waters. It kills your gut biome. Causes autoummune diseases. My liver is fried. Who are you kidding?? My gardener uses it and my concern was growing to the point I wanted him to stop.
You filter your coffee, your vacuum, and the oil in your car. You do not know who is carrying it. My background is that worked with deadlier and more contagious zoonotic viral diseases and quarantining of exotic animals on a day-to-day basis for 15 years in a zoo and three biomedical research universities and never took my work home with me…I am not an epidemiologist but managed these facilities and kept my staff safe.
How about these super weeds that are becoming resistant to Round-Up? Farmers are getting very frustrated with that. Just the track record of Monsanto makes me hate them for their crimes against humanity. Most of these studies have been doctored by Monsanto themselves to make their product seem safer.
They knew all along and had the money to cover up any bad findings about their product. They have our own EPA in their pockets! Look that one up once. Carey Gillum and her book Whitewash is pretty compelling.
More private studies need to be conducted!!! I find it endlessly amusing that you claim that Monsanto doctors studies, when they are the only side of this who has actually adhered to the basic standards in toxicology, and HAS replicated their results.
How many studies that meet the minimum requirements in toxicology for determining that a causal relationship exists between glyphosate exposure and any adverse effects at or below the current limits?
The OECD protocols have been the standard for decades, yet in all that time, not one study has come out of the anti-biotech groups, while industry, academic, and government labs have managed this precise feat time and time again. The first combined study on glyphosate reported by Monsanto back in was fully compliant with the standards when it was begun, but by the time it was finished week study , the OECD protocols had been adopted as the new standard, and the study was missing some key elements relating to the MTD, sample size, and treatment groups.
So the study was not compliant with the new standards. So much so that I have, and will continue to use it as a teaching example on how not design a study. Monsanto went and ran a new 2 year study that was fully compliant with the OECD design Monsanto Reality casts a very different light on this topic, and you might want to actually learn about how things work in toxicology, because you clearly have no clue, and an axe to grind in relation to Monsanto.
Oh, and correlation is not causation, nor can it be used to imply causation. A man made chemical in it. And still die of beaver fever. You do know that they took isolated PBMCs, and then exposed them to formulated RoundUp…which contains surfactants…which are generally called soaps…that disrupt lipids…like those that make up cytoplasmic membranes of those PBMCs, right? Weeds will grow back after several weeks or months in the same area.
I am a chemical engineer by education and worked at the US Patent Office as a patent examiner for 8 years in chemical pharmaceuticals and then worked at the USDA agricultural research service as a patent writer and a technology transfer coordinator for thirty years.
Your vociferous support for glycophosphate I find extreme. Your comparing it to materials that are on the GRAS list generally regarded as safe I find inappropriate. It is not a GRAS material. I donate food I grow and will not put such a manufactured chemical on it — out of respect for the recipients and their various knowledge levels. Your acknowledgement of surfactant issues shows that the overall content of your article is not well written for the general audience as many lack the understanding of the effects of the other compounds that are typically combined with this active agent.
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