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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
Sat Jul 25, 2015, 10:17 AM Jul 2015

Saw this all over Facebook [View all]

Just wondering what skeptics have to say about it. Is there more to it?

BTW.... I'm perfectly OK with GMOs, y'know.

http://www.thelocal.de/20150626/concerns-over-safety-of-german-breast-milk


The Green Party warned on Friday about the health risks of breast-feeding after traces of a substance found in weed-killer were found in breast milk.
The Green party made their warning after testing the breast milk of 16 women from a variety of German regions.

Traces of glyphosate, a chemical used in weed-killers, amounting to between 0.210 and 0.432 nanograms per mililitre (PPB) were recorded.

For breast milk testing results for Glyphosate from the U.S. in 2014 click here

In drinking water a quantity of no more than 0.100 nanograms of the substance is allowed.

Irene Witte, professor of toxicology at the University of Oldenburg described the findings as “intolerable.”

“I would never have guessed that the quantities are so high,” she said.


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Saw this all over Facebook [View all] AlbertCat Jul 2015 OP
No surprise here randr Jul 2015 #1
That's a blanket statement with little or no basis in reality. Archae Jul 2015 #2
Nope. progressoid Jul 2015 #3
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