The levels are very low bit it’s interesting that Round-up is in all major brands of orange juice..

These were at the bottom of the list for pesticides and herbicides.

From Environmental Working Group.

http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list.php

1. Strawberries
2. Apples
3. Nectarines
4. Peaches
5. Celery
6. Grapes
7. Cherries
8. Spinach
9. Tomatoes
10. Sweet bell peppers

From Environmental Working Group.

http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list.php

(And consider what we feed the cows that we eat.)

http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/standards/pestres/pesticide-detail/en/?p_id=158

• Soy
• Corn
• Canola
• Cotton
• Sugar Beet
• Potato
• Rice
• Alfalfa (Lucerne

(from https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2016C00829)

Food derived from:
1 Canola
(a) herbicide-tolerant canola line GT73

(b) herbicide-tolerant canola lines Topas 19/2 and T45 and herbicide-tolerant and pollination-controlled lines Ms1, Ms8, Rf1, Rf2, Rf3

(c) herbicide-tolerant canola line Westar-Oxy-235

(d) herbicide-tolerant canola line MON88302

(e) herbicide-tolerant canola line DP-073496-4

2 Corn
(a) herbicide-tolerant corn line GA21

(b) insect-protected corn line MON810

(c) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line Bt11

(d) insect-protected corn line Bt176

(e) herbicide-tolerant corn line T25

(f) herbicide-tolerant corn line NK603

(g) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line DBT418

(h) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line 1507

(i) insect-protected corn line MON863

(j) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line DAS-59122-7

(k) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line MON88017

(l) insect-protected corn line MIR604

(m) high lysine corn line LY038 (see subsections (2) and (3))

(n) amylase modified corn line 3272

(o) insect-protected corn line MON89034

(p) insect-protected corn line MIR162

(q) herbicide-tolerant corn line DP-098140-6

(r) drought-tolerant corn line MON87460

(s) herbicide-tolerant corn line DAS-40278-9

(t) insect-protected corn line 5307

(u) herbicide-tolerant corn line MON87427

(v) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line MON87411

(w) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line 4114

(x) herbicide-tolerant corn line MZHG0JG

(y) high yield corn line MON87403

(z) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line MZIR098

(za) herbicide-tolerant corn line MON87419

3 Cotton
(a) insect-protected cotton lines 531, 757 and 1076

(b) herbicide-tolerant cotton line 1445

(c) herbicide-tolerant cotton lines 10211 and 10222

(d) insect-protected cotton line 15985

(e) insect-protected cotton line COT102

(f) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected cotton line MXB-13

(g) herbicide-tolerant cotton line LL25

(h) herbicide-tolerant cotton line MON88913

(i) herbicide-tolerant cotton line GHB614

(j) insect-protected cotton line COT67B

(k) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected cotton line T304-40

(l) herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected cotton line GHB119

(m) herbicide-tolerant cotton line MON88701

(n) herbicide-tolerant cotton line DAS-81910-7
4 Lucerne
(a) herbicide-tolerant lucerne lines J101 and J163

(b) reduced lignin lucerne line KK179
5 Potato
(a) insect-protected potato lines BT-06, ATBT04-06, ATBT04-31, ATBT04-36, and SPBT02-05

(b) insect- and virus-protected potato lines RBMT21-129, RBMT21-350 and RBMT22-82

(c) insect- and virus-protected potato lines RBMT15-101, SEM15-02 and SEM15-15
6 Rice
(a) herbicide-tolerant rice line LLRICE62

7 Soybean
(a) herbicide-tolerant soybean line 40-3-2

(b) herbicide-tolerant soybean lines A2704-12 and A5547-127

(c) herbicide-tolerant soybean line MON89788

(d) herbicide-tolerant soybean line DP-356043-5

(e) high oleic acid soybean line DP-305423-1 (see subsection (2))

(f) insect-protected soybean line MON87701

(g) herbicide-tolerant high oleic acid soybean line MON87705 (see subsection (2))

(h) soybean line MON87769 producing stearidonic acid (see subsection (2))

(i) herbicide-tolerant soybean line DAS-68416-4

(j) herbicide-tolerant soybean line FG72

(k) herbicide-tolerant soybean line MON87708

(l) herbicide-tolerant soybean line CV127

(m) herbicide-tolerant soybean line DAS-44406-6

(n) herbicide-tolerant soybean line SYHT0H2

(o) insect-protected soybean line DAS-81419-2

(p) insect-protected soybean line MON87751
8 Sugarbeet
(a) herbicide-tolerant sugarbeet line 77

(b) herbicide-tolerant sugarbeet line H7-1
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Recent declines in honey bee populations and increasing demand for insect-pollinated crops raise concerns about pollinator shortages. Pesticide exposure and pathogens may interact to have strong negative effects on managed honey bee colonies. Such findings are of great concern given the large numbers and high levels of pesticides found in honey bee colonies. Thus it is crucial to determine how field-relevant combinations and loads of pesticides affect bee health. We collected pollen from bee hives in seven major crops to determine 1) what types of pesticides bees are exposed to when rented for pollination of various crops and 2) how field-relevant pesticide blends affect bees’ susceptibility to the gut parasite Nosema ceranae . Our samples represent pollen collected by foragers for use by the colony, and do not necessarily indicate foragers’ roles as pollinators. In blueberry, cranberry, cucumber, pumpkin and watermelon bees collected pollen almost exclusively from weeds and wildflowers during our sampling. Thus more attention must be paid to how honey bees are exposed to pesticides outside of the field in which they are placed. We detected 35 different pesticides in the sampled pollen, and found high fungicide loads. The insecticides esfenvalerate and phosmet were at a concentration higher than their median lethal dose in at least one pollen sample. While fungicides are typically seen as fairly safe for honey bees, we found an increased probability of Nosema infection in bees that consumed pollen with a higher fungicide load. Our results highlight a need for research on sub-lethal effects of fungicides and other chemicals that bees placed in an agricultural setting are exposed to.

Source: Crop Pollination Exposes Honey Bees to Pesticides Which Alters Their Susceptibility to the Gut Pathogen Nosema ceranae

This was from 2 years ago.

This week the WHO announced:

How come the ‘safe level’ of Roundup varies from food to food? How come more roundup is allowed in wheat and canola than in rice and figs? (see chart here)

Is roundup any less toxic when it is in wheat than in rice?

Or could it be that the levels of roundup allowed in food are actually based on the amount of roundup that a farmer want’s to use, rather than on how toxic it is to humans…

Where they spray roundup on a crop just before they harvest it (e.g. canola and, in the usa, wheat) more roundup is ‘safe’. Where roundup is only used pre-emergent herbicide, less is allowed. Coincidence?

Allowable levels of Roundup in water (if there was a glyphosate spillage) are 1 mg/L, that’s 1 part per million.

(“If present in drinking water as a result of a spillage or through misuse, glyphosate would not be a health concern unless the concentration exceeded 1 mg/L.”)

source

How come we are allowed 20 times that level in our canola, sunflower seed and wheat bran?

Call me naive, but changing the amount of Roundup allowed in a food based on how much Roundup a farmer puts on his crop seems a little back the front to me…