Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines

Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by squift on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:13PM (#19286556)

Tsingtao has the highest glyphosate content of the beers tested at 48.7ppb. That's 0.02254 mg per 16 ounces. You'd have to drink nearly 100 pints per kilogram of body weight in a day to get to the 2mg/day EPA safe limit recommendation referenced in the linked article. The article, and the US PIRG report that "1 part per trillion" of glyphosate can stimulate cancer cells but doesn't say what unit of measurement that figure is measured from.

Also consider PIRG's funding sources and biases. I'm absolutely for minimizing the use of pesticides but, this is just not it.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=49.7+ppb+of+16+ounces

https://uspirg.org/feature/usp/glyphosate-pesticide-beer-and...

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-public-interes...

[Edit: I missed the per kilogram of body weight part of 2mg/kg/day on the EPA guidance]

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by mortenjorck on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:33PM (#19286644)

It's not just 2mg/day; it's 2mg/day/kg of body weight.

So a woman who weighs 110lbs (50kg) would have to drink 50 times that, or 5000 pints in one day to pass the EPA limit.

Obviously most people won't drink that in a year, and this article is fairly useless for limiting itself to the easy-clicks topic of booze versus industrial agriculture chemicals. What I think would be interesting is to look at, across an average diet, what one's total daily glyphosate exposure might be, against any relevant clinical information, but that's more of a research paper than a piece of blog content.

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by tedmcory77 on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:52PM (#19286996)

Whats the clearance rate? Does it store in fat? What is the dosage from other things in the diet. Those are very important questions.

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by squift on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:41PM (#19286685)

Oh, thank you for catching that! I can't believe I missed such a big detail.

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by cylinder on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:32PM (#19298358)

Amazing when you consider the confidence espoused in the tone of the original post and the dismissiveness of a major safety matter. And it's still the top comment here two days later. This is on HN, what hope do the commons have?

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by okintheory on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:33PM (#19286642)

Also consider influencewatch.org's biases

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/influence-watch/

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by squift on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:39PM (#19286672)

Ah! Thank you. I already knew of PIRG via Ralph Nader, but you're correct. Influencewatch definitely leans right which is unfortunate if they want to appear neutral.

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by azhenley on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:59PM (#19286772)

Is glyphosate not found in other foods and drinks? Are beers and wines special in some way?

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by beenBoutIT on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:34AM (#19287767)

RoundUp would be found in close to 100% of everyone's urine, if only people had access to the tests.

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Re:Roundup found in 95% of studied beers and wines by pella on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:24PM (#19286850)

# diapers : "Traces of dangerous chemicals found in disposable nappies in France"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/france-traces-...

# children foods: "Weedkiller found in wide range of breakfast foods aimed at children"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/16/weedkill...

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