Science, Health, and Food Blog

A study published in JAMA tracked people over the age of 50 in Southern California from 1993-1996 to 2014-2016. Urine samples were collec...

From 2010. Sometimes people reference this study, or Alex Jones takes it out of context. Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pes...

The FDA's Pesticide Monitoring Report from 2015 contains a report on what pesticides were found in foods. It's a good idea to show t...

Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study ...

What is the Shikimate pathway? The Shikimate pathway is a seven step metabolic route used by bacteria, fungi, algae, some protozoan paras...

Teflon is a brand of a type of fluoropolymer coating created by DuPont, is also called PTFE (polytetrafluroethylene). It's used on lots ...

IARC, the research arm of WHO, declared that glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) is a probably human carcinogen. PDF here .(This l...

It's not just genetics, but a toxic environment can cause cancer, says a new study from the journal Cancer.  Researchers examined hund...

Today we do a "look back" at important news: German study finds glyphosate (Roundup) in all urine samples tested . (Link has been ...

In 2015-2016, the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) tested a total of 3,188 food samples for glyphosate. Glyphosate was found in 29.7% ...

Researchers at Binghamton University in New York found that chronic exposure to titanium dioxide — an additive present in chewing gum, ca...

A long-term, low-dose study by Seralini and others shows Roundup causes liver disease in female rats. The study took 2 years and... The do...

1/16/2017 EPA documents say that the EPA will reevaluate neonicotinoids as they are possibly responsible bee devastation around the US. As...

The (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) tested 7600 foods for presence of Glyphosate and AMPA (a glyphosate metabolite). Some of the foods wit...

Keep in mind that there's a difference between glyphosate (which is bad enough) and Roundup, which contains surfactants to make it bette...

Monsanto's GM corn MON810 has damaged rat intestines, according to a new study stored at the NIH. Damaged intestines can lead to poor nu...

The USDA runs a program called the Pesticide Data Program where it tests foods for pesticide residues. The 2015 report (released Nov 2016) s...

Highlights: Chronically ill humans had significantly higher glyphosate residues in urine than healthy humans. Their instrumentation inclu...

Recently, a study, called "The Effect of Glyphosate on Potential Pathogens and Beneficial Members of Poultry Microbiota In Vitro",...

Earlier in 2016 the FDA began testing foods for glyphosate. It has recently found glyphosate in baby foods containing oats. Keep in mind th...