Now he’s got to dog food. Scientists have found traces of the herbicide glyphosate, which is associated with the risk of developing cancer, in the popular products for dogs.
Several major brands, producing food for dogs and cats, producing products with traces of dangerous herbicide glyphosatein respect of which proven to provoke cancer. Researchers from Cornell University in new York found traces of the herbicide in the production of 18 different brands, including the most popular. Revealed a low concentration of glyphosatethat do not pose a real threat. One of the feeds, which found glyphosate, even contained on the package label that it does not contain GMOs.
The results of a study published on the same day when the European working group shared the results of the work of scientists who discovered harmful levels of glyphosate in 26 popular brands, producing Breakfast cereals. With regard to the most recent studies, you the authors acquired a dog KORm in local pet stores, and then checked it in research laboratories. All samples contained a combination of vegetable and meat ingredients, feed one of the promised non-GMO. Science has no sufficient studies in order to assess the impact of glyphosate on Pets, so scientists use the data against people.
In accordance with the recommendations of the Agency for environmental protection, the current maximum safe concentration of glyphosate in food is 30 ppm. The researchers calculated that consume contaminated feed dogs expose themselves to the effects of no more than 0.7% of the limit set for adults. In other words, the concentration of glyphosate in dog food hundreds of times less than is considered dangerous to humans. (READ MORE)