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Feb. 20, 2024 - Epoch Times
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New Pesticide ‘Linked to Reproductive Issues’ Found in 80% of Americans
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In yet another example of how these weird chemicals have become essentially ubiquitous in the modern American diet, well, a new study just came out showing that a pesticide that's been linked to infertility was found in upwards of 80% of the people here in America.
Specifically, this was a paper that was published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, and it was titled A Pilot Study of Chlormacat in Food and Urine from Adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023.
With the term pilot study, meaning that previously this wasn't something that was being measured, and there's a good reason for that.
Because, you see, the chemical that's in question is called chlormacat.
It's a pesticide that very few people here in the U.S. have heard about previously because prior to the year 2018, it was actually not allowed to be used in food.
Here's how this is described in the context of this actual study.
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Chlormacab chloride is an agricultural chemical first registered in the U.S. in 1962 as a plant growth regulator, although currently only allowed for use on ornamental plants in the U.S. A 2018 decision by the EPA permitted the import of foods, primarily grains, treated with Chlormacat.
In the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, Chlormacat chloride is approved for use on food crops, primarily wheat, oats and barley.
Chlormacat acts to decrease stem height, thereby reducing the likelihood of crops bending over, which can make harvesting difficult.
Meaning in plain English that starting in the year 2018, because of this regulatory change on the part of the EPA, more and more products sold here in the US were grown using Initially, in 2018, the EPA set their official tolerance level for chlormacad at 10 parts per million.
However, just two years later, in 2022, the EPA revised their standards, and they increased the maximum amount of chlormacad by four times, meaning that food can possess upwards of four parts per million starting in the year 2020.
This change in standard allowed for more companies to ship their grains here to America.
Which is, of course, all well and good, except for the fact that Chlormacat has been shown to be linked to serious infertility and reproductive problems in animals.
Quote, These observations were later investigated in controlled laboratory experiments on pigs and mice,
whereby female pigs fed chlormatat-treated grains exhibited disrupted estrus cycling and difficulty mating compared to animals on a controlled chlormatat-free diet.
Furthermore, you had additional testing which found problems not only in female animals, but also in their male counterparts.
Additionally, male mice exposed to chlormatat via diet or drinking water during the development cycle exhibited decreased fertilization capacity of sperm in vitro.
More recent reproductive toxicity studies on Chlormacat show delayed onset of puberty, reduced sperm motility, increased weights of male reproductive organs, and decreased testosterone levels in rats exposed during sensitive windows of development, including during pregnancy and early life.
And so...
Given the, you can say, absolute freefall that the average male sperm count has been on for the past 50 or so years, well, these types of findings are concerning, to say the least.
That a new pesticide is being introduced to the American diet, which has been shown, at least in animals, to cause all sorts of fertility issues.
Furthermore, despite the fact that the EPA claims that keeping chlormacat at 40 parts per million is safe, it's really worth noting that there are studies which suggest that these standards are inaccurate for maintaining safety in humans.
Toxicological studies suggest that exposure to chlormacat can reduce fertility and harm the developing fetus at doses lower than those used by regulatory agencies to set allowable daily intake levels.
Meaning that it might be the case that even with doses lower than 40 parts per million, fertility problems might still arise.
And so this was the backdrop for the study.
In 2018, this pesticide was allowed into the U.S. market, and then subsequently in 2020, the standards were changed to allow more of it to appear in our food.
And so, seeing this, the researchers over at the Environmental Working Group, they test the people during a time period ranging from 2017 all the way up to 2023.
And so essentially, this study was measuring people right before Chloramacat was allowed into America, and then subsequently for the next five years afterwards.
And what they found was shocking to say the least.
Quote, And then right below,
they have a visual graph showing how in 2017, as well as the period between 2018 and 2022, the rates were pretty stable, but in the year 2023, the chloromacate concentrations in these urine samples of American people, they skyrocketed.
Quote, And we can only guess what it looks like now in 2024.
And so all this means that even outside of the number of Americans who are testing positive for Chlormacat, the actual concentration of this stuff in people's urine, it rose dramatically.
The study suggests that the reason for this higher concentration is, quote, And what perhaps makes this data even more wild is the fact that,
according to these researchers, Chlormatab should actually leave the body 24 hours after ingestion.
And so the fact that people's urine samples reflect higher and higher and higher concentrations of this stuff Well, it seems to suggest what the researchers call continuous exposure to the chemical.
And so here's where we get to the heart of the matter.
Continuous exposure.
Because according to these researchers, the way that people are coming into contact, into non-stop contact with chlormatad, is by eating very popular brands of oat-based products.
Things that you very likely have in your cupboard right now.
Quote, We detected the chemical in 92% of oat-based foods purchased in May of 2023, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios.
To test for Chlormatat, the Environmental Working Group bought 13 non-organic, or conventional, oatmeal, granola, cereals, and other oat-based products and one organic granola product in spring and summer of 2022.
All but one had detectable levels of Chlormacat.
Quaker's Old Fashioned Oats had the highest concentration at 291 parts per billion.
The next highest samples, all above 100 parts per billion, included two more Quaker products.
Honey Nut Oatmeal Squares and Maple and Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal, as well as Great Value Oats and Honey Granola and Cheerios.
The only conventional product, meaning the only non-organic product, with no detectable level of Chlormacad, was Kellogg's Special K Fruit and Yogurt.
No Chlormacad was detected in the single organic granola sample test.
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Meaning that according to this research, if you're eating Quaker oats or Cheerios in the morning, just like millions of Americans do, well, you are likely regularly coming into contact with Chlormacab.
Although, the question of whether we should be alarmed by this is still, frankly, up in the air.
Because even though these researchers found detectable levels of chlormacat in about 92% of these non-organic, oat-based products that they were testing, they also made a special point to mention that the people whose urine samples they were testing, quote, were exposed to chlormacat at levels several orders of magnitude below the recommended safety thresholds set by the EPA and the European Food Safety Authority.
And indeed, if you look at the concentrations, they were marked in parts per billion, wherein the thresholds were marked in parts per million.
So there's indeed a discrepancy of magnitude there, meaning that although they were testing positive and the concentrations in their bodies was detectable, it was still well below the threshold, which was set by the EPA. However, while that is a positive, there are still multiple potential problems, as laid out here by the researchers.
Quote, Toxicological studies on Chlormacat suggest re-evaluation of these safety thresholds may be warranted due to, among other reasons, studies showing that mice and pigs exposed to doses lower than these EPA thresholds have displayed reduced fertility.
One analysis found that exposure to Chlormacat at a dose equivalent to a level used for determining the EPA threshold altered fetal growth as well as metabolism and body composition in neonatal mice.
Also, besides these animal-based studies, another aspect that was highlighted by this research is the potential for Chlormacat that's ingested through food to react to some other drug that the person might be also taking.
Quote, These factors raise concerns about the potential health effects associated with current exposure levels,
especially for individuals on the higher end of exposure in general populations of Europe and the U.S. Now, in terms of the actual companies, the companies who are manufacturing these oat-based products, they hold that everything is on the up-and-up and that they are following federal guidelines to a T. For instance, after this research was published, there was a statement that was released by General Mills saying the following, quote, All our products adhere to all regulatory requirements.
Food safety is always our top priority at General Mills, and we take care to ensure our food is prepared and packaged in the safest way possible.
And that is likely true.
But I guess the underlying question here is whether these regulatory requirements are sufficient.
At the moment, despite these animal studies, the EPA believes that they are.
And as a consequence, over 80% of Americans now have detectable levels of this pesticide in their system.
Whether that'll ultimately be proven to be safe in the long term, well, perhaps only time will tell.
Until then, though, if you would like to reduce the amount of chlormacat in your own family's diet, well, according to the testing that was done by these researchers, they noted that organic oat-based products, as a category, appear to have less of this pesticide than the conventional products.
Quote, Out of 25 conventional oat products tested, 23 had detectable levels of chlormacat, which is 92%.
1 in 8 organic oat products had the chemical, which is 12%.
Meaning that as a practical matter, if you are looking to have less chlormacat in your family's diet, you'll have to start purchasing organic cereal and organic oatmeal.
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