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The Senator Versus the Pesticide Industry

Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States each and every year, while approximately 5.6 billion pounds are used worldwide.

March 27, 2023

Scott C. Tips

Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States each and every year, while approximately 5.6 billion pounds are used worldwide.

A Most Surreal Two Weeks: The Codex Alimentarius Circus Comes to Town

January 20, 2022

Scott C. Tips

Editor’s Note: This article is intended for information purposes only. Because state and municipal laws vary greatly, as do the circumstances of individual cases, readers are advised to contact an attorney for specific legal advice. © Scott C. Tips 2022. Note: The views and opinions expressed here are those of...

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: One Victory, One Loss

September 28, 2021

Scott C. Tips

Editor’s Note: This article is intended for information purposes only. Because state and municipal laws vary greatly, as do the circumstances of individual cases, readers are advised to contact an attorney for specific legal advice. © Scott C. Tips 2021 Note: The views and opinions expressed here are those of...

Bayer to Remove Glyphosate from Lawn & Garden Roundup Products

August 25, 2021

Julia Peterman

Leverkusen—Bayer has provided an update on its five-point plan to address future Roundup litigation risk after a May 27 decision to withdraw from the national class process. A major portion of its plan: Bayer will remove glyphosate from products in the U.S. residential Lawn & Garden market, replacing the ingredient...

Confessions of a Middle Age “Glyphoholic”

June 21, 2021

James Johnson

“You mean to tell me that the way we have been doing it the last 60-plus years has been wrong?” That conversation with my father still echoes in my mind today. He and my grandfather had been very successful, raised close to 40 crops before I came home from college,...

Heavy Metals in Food and the Questions We Need to be Asking

April 29, 2021

Zen Honeycutt

A recent report released on February 4, 2021, by the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Committee on Oversight and Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, revealed shocking levels of heavy metals in baby food ingredients. This report was sparked by testing initiated by Healthy Babies Bright Future in August of...

Sabinsa Now Offering Glyphosate Test Results

November 23, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

East Windsor, NJ—Sabinsa is now offering glyphosate test results to customers, according to a press release, using a proprietary method for testing glyphosate developed by Sami-Sabinsa. Glyphosate, sold under the name RoundUp, has been used as a pesticide in the U.S. since 1974. It is also used to dry crops...

Core Human Gut Bacteria May Be Sensitive to Glyphosate, Study Finds

November 23, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Finland—Glyphosate may affect human gut microbiota, according to a new study from the University of Turku in Finland. Researchers at the university have developed a new bioinformatics tool to predict if a microbe, such as a human gut bacterium, is sensitive to glyphosate, according to a press release on the...

EWG Finds High Glyphosate Levels in Hummus

July 14, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Washington, D.C.—The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commissioned laboratory tests on hummus and chickpeas samples, and found glyphosate in more than 80% of non-organic samples. It was detected at far lower levels in organic versions, according to a press release. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world, the...

The Risks of Glyphosate and How to Reduce Exposure

February 14, 2020

Steve Lankford and Steve Lankford, host of HealthQuestPodcast.com

Click here to listen. This is a very interesting interview with Dr. Erin Stokes. I have learned a lot about the risks of glyphosate (RoundUp) in the course of researching this topic. The emerging worldwide problem with glyphosate is the profoundly negative impact throughout the food chain. I think...