Topic: food - on February 3, 2012 at 1:14:00 PM CET
Monsanto’s Roundup Contaminating Groundwater Supplies
Monsanto, the world leader of genetically engineered (GE) crops, has long claimed that its herbicide Roundup is safe. They have even used the following to describe Roundup:
“Biodegradable”
“Environmentally Friendly”
“It’s Safer than Mowing”
Unfortunately long after hundreds of millions of pounds of the chemical have already been applied to U.S. soil, Roundup is proving to be a pervasive environmental threat, one that may already be poisoning a good portion of the world’s remaining natural water supply.
The quantity of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, in the environment has been difficult to analyze due to its physicochemical properties, such as its relatively low molecular weight and low organic solvent solubility.
However, a recent study used a magnetic particle immunoassay to test for the presence of glyphosate in roughly 140 samples of groundwater from Catalonia, Spain.
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