However, after testing volunteers’ samples the group still cannot say “where it is coming from, how widespread it is in the environment, or what it is doing to our health.” “It is crucial for growing genetically modified (GM) crops, many of which are modified to withstand glyphosate,” FoE said.Īll volunteers, who provided their urine samples, are people from European cities they had no contact with glyphosate or used products containing it in the run-up to the tests.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, which is sprayed in large amounts on genetically engineered, so-called “Roundup Ready,” crops. Glyphosate is essentially used on plants including grasses, sedges, broad-leaved weeds and woody plants as well as great variety of genetically modified crops. “Our testing highlights a serious lack of action by public authorities across Europe and indicates that this weed killer is being widely overused,” the group said. The study, carried out between March and May 2013, showed that proportions of positive samples varies between countries, with Malta (90 per cent), Germany (70 per cent), UK (70 per cent) and Poland being “the most positive samples” and Macedonia and Switzerland – “the lowest”. “These results suggest we are being exposed to glyphosate in our everyday lives,” Adrian Bebb, spokesperson of environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) said in a statement.

It turns out that 44 per cent of volunteers had it in their urine, but it is yet unclear how the herbicide got into their systems. Glyphosate – a chemical, used by Monsanto, found in urine of 44% of Europeans – study

It remains unclear how the chemical used on Monsanto GMO corps got in people’s bodies.

Residents of 18 European states have been tested positively to traces of glyphosate, a globally used weed killer, the study says. However, the US water levels have 7,000 more glyphosate than the amount allowed for animal organ damage. In fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency requires that the level of glyphosate in drinking water not to exceed 0.7 ppm and animals have had organ damages if their exposure to glyphosate has exceeded 0.1 ppm. GM corn has high toxic levels of glyphosate and formaldehyde and lower levels of nutrients and organic corn has 7 times more manganese, 437 times more calcium and 56 times more magnesium than GM corn. Studies also show that both levels of glyphosate and formaldehyde in GM corn are toxic.

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