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Independent researchers find no glyphosate in breast milk


An accredited, outside organization has verified a study which found that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, does not accumulate in mother’s breast milk, disputing the claims of a ground funded by political activists called Moms Across America, which claimed they had found it to be both present and dangerous. Michelle McGuire, an associate…

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BPA risk to infants smaller than claimed


Though a majority of newborns are exposed in their earliest days to bisphenol A (BPA), a much-studied chemical used in plastics and in food and soda can linings, they rid their bodies of it, according to a study in The Journal of Pediatrics which challenges claims on BPA toxicology promoted in corporate media and on…

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