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The main active ingredient of Roundup is the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate. Another ingredient of Roundup is the surfactant POEA (polyethoxylated tallow amine). Monsanto also produced seeds which grow into plants genetically engineered to be tolerant to glyphosate, which are known as Roundup Ready crops. The genes contained in these seeds ...
Glyphosate exposure can also alter the structure of natural freshwater bacterial and zooplankton communities. Researchers found that for zooplankton, aquatic concentrations of 0.1 mg/L glyphosate were sufficient to cause diversity loss. [105] These effects on organisms at the base of the food chain may have long term unintended effects.
While glyphosate and formulations such as Roundup have been approved by regulatory bodies worldwide, concerns about their effects on humans and the environment have persisted. [9] [10] A number of regulatory and scholarly reviews have evaluated the relative toxicity of glyphosate as an herbicide.
The World Health Organization has identified glyphosate as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" and a study published earlier this year showed that glyphosate raised the cancer risk of those exposed ...
Roundup is an herbicide so good at sending weeds "to the great beyond" that the WHO says it "probably" causes cancer — and now the FDA is finally taking measures to keep it out of food.
The specifics are still under wraps, but the agency has confirmed it will start testing foods sold in the U.S. for traces of the controversial weed killer.
Roundup Pro is a formulation of glyphosate that contains a "phosphate ester neutralized polyethoxylated tallow amine" surfactant; as of 1997 there was no published information regarding the chemical differences between the surfactant in Roundup and Roundup Pro. [1]: 14 POEA concentrations range from <1% in ready-to-use glyphosate formulations ...
Following its 1970 introduction, Monsanto's last commercially relevant United States patent on the herbicide glyphosate (brand name RoundUp) expired in 2000. Glyphosate has since been marketed by many agrochemical companies, in various solution strengths and with various adjuvants, under dozens of tradenames.