FDA deliberately tried to avoid testing glyphosate, only announced effort after being reamed by GAO for failures
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
It is, by far, the most widely used crop herbicide in the world. But glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup formula, is not on the list of agriculture chemicals that either the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the Department of Agriculture (USDA) tests for on food products consumed by humans.
Ever since it was first approved for commercial use back in 1974, glyphosate has never been given proper regulatory attention from a human health perspective. Both the FDA and the USDA have long regarded glyphosate as being completely safe, insisting that testing for its presence on food would be expensive and unnecessary. But the Government Accountability Office (GAO) feels differently.
This watchdog agency issued a memorandum back in 2014 chastising the FDA for failing to evaluate just how pervasive glyphosate is throughout the food supply. Not only does the FDA not test for glyphosate, but it also hasn’t publicly indicated this fact, despite glyphosate being categorized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a high-risk chemical.
“… FDA does not disclose in its annual monitoring reports that it does not test for several commonly used pesticides with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established tolerance (the maximum amount of a pesticide residue that is allowed to remain on or in a food)—including glyphosate, the most used agricultural pesticide,” the GAO memo explains.
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