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Nov. 29, 2019 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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We're finding ORGANIC products contaminated with GLYPHOSATE

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	In our lab testing of raw materials for organic superfoods and products, we are seeing a kind of a wave recently of certified organic products having high glyphosate.
	And a sample that I just saw today was organic wheatgrass that had about 487, I believe, parts per billion, or maybe it was 486 parts per billion glyphosate.
	Now, we spent a couple of years developing a glyphosate testing method.
	But along with that, we developed sample prep techniques that I believe are the best in the industry.
	In other words, they are the most sensitive.
	They recover the most glyphosate that can be reported.
	And as a result, a lot of the foods that might not show high levels with a typical lab prep technique If you use our technique, it's going to show higher levels because more of the glyphosate is getting pulled out of the sample and into the water.
	We use water as a solvent because water is compatible with glyphosate molecules, with the polarity, it dissolves in water, it's soluble, pH is good, everything.
	So I think our technique pulls out a lot more glyphosate than many other techniques.
	And we're publishing our technique, by the way, as well, so other labs can follow it if they wish.
	And our technique does not use what's called post-column derivatization, by the way, which means that we can take the water extract from the food samples and we can run it directly on the instrument without having to do any kind of alteration or compound molecules with additional chemicals.
	That's called post-column derivatization.
	Anyway, we don't have to do that.
	So our technique is very good.
	But as a result, it's giving us a glimpse into the industry that is even shocking me.
	I had no idea that so many organic products were contaminated with glyphosate.
	We're seeing this in many, many organic products.
	I don't want to say yet exactly what they are because I want to actually my goal is to do about a thousand products and really compile a very good statistical analysis of which foods that are organic happen to tend to be high in glyphosate.
	But there are a lot of them.
	And it reminds me that the USDA organic program is increasingly taken over by big ag, and it is increasingly meaningless.
	I've always been a strong supporter of organics, but even then, I've always known that the organic certification program does not certify a result.
	In other words, growing organic food does not require you to test your food after you grow it.
	There's no testing required.
	Did you know that?
	Not for heavy metals, not even for pesticides or herbicides.
	What's required is to engage in a process that prohibits the spraying of your food crops with certain chemicals.
	But as long as you follow that process of avoiding the prohibited chemicals being added, then you can use, for example, irrigation water That is heavily contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
	So what I suspect is happening, this is just from my knowledge as a food scientist and lab scientist and understanding the food industry and the deceptions in the industry and so on.
	What I believe is happening is that many crops are being irrigated with river water.
	Municipal water, or I should say, well, not like treated city water, but reclaimed water in California, for example, is a lot of reclaimed water, and even in Arizona's agriculture, river water.
	And this river water is contaminated with glyphosate runoff that's sprayed on non-organic crops.
	And glyphosate, because it is so water-soluble, it easily runs into rivers and streams, and there it persists as a very, maybe I'll say a penetrative type of molecule.
	It tends to penetrate everything because it's so small.
	And again, it's water-soluble, so it goes everywhere that water goes.
	So that when farmers downstream are irrigating their organic crops, they're complying with organic standards.
	They're not spraying pesticides and herbicides, but they're irrigating.
	And they're irrigating with, you know, ditch water or canal water or river water.
	They're irrigating with the water that they have, and that water is contaminated with glyphosate.
	And I believe this is how we're seeing glyphosate in many organic products.
	And the levels we're seeing are, frankly, becoming quite concerning in certain cases.
	The one I mentioned today, wheatgrass that's organic, is almost 500 parts per billion, or nanograms per milliliter.
	That's pretty high, as far as I'm concerned, in terms of our standards anyway.
	We wouldn't sell that product.
	That's much higher than what we would sell.
	In our book, the A rating is 100 parts per billion.
	Anything higher than that actually becomes B or C or D or F. Now, the 100 nanograms per milliliter is the EU standard for most foods.
	But not beans and legumes and things like garbanzo beans and green lentils and I think pinto beans and things like that.
	For those foods, the EU allows just crazy insane levels like 30 parts per million, which is orders of magnitude higher.
	And the reason they allow that is because there's so much glyphosate contamination in certain crops that nothing could be sold if they didn't set those standards way high.
	So if you go buy lettuce, the limit in the EU is 100 parts per billion.
	If you go buy green lentils, it's 30,000 parts per billion.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Or something in that range.
	And so when it comes to organics, The organic certification by the USDA doesn't mean that the food has been tested for glyphosate or that it doesn't contain any glyphosate.
	And it's shocking to me, as a food scientist, as someone who's running the lab tests and doing the necessary science on all the correct lab instruments, you know, using a triple-quad mass spec for this and using ISO-accredited lab techniques and so on, to find that there is...
	There's massive glyphosate contamination in organic foods.
	And right now we are doing so many tests on our own raw materials lots and our finished products that we've had very little capacity to test off the shelf products.
	So really what we're seeing so far is just like little samples from lots that we've been sent to see if we were interested in buying them.
	But I fear that when we start really ramping up the testing of off-the-shelf products and when we go to Whole Foods and we We take samples from their buffet, for example, or if we just go to some grocery store and we just start buying organic, gluten-free snacks and crackers and cookies and whatever, I have a feeling we're going to see some really persistent, crazy levels of glyphosate in everything.
	I mean, I've already seen In rolled oats, even organic oats, I've seen high levels.
	We've tested some couple of breakfast cereals and it was in the hundreds of parts per billion in just a couple that we were testing almost for fun.
	I'm telling you, the glyphosate saturation of the food supply is much worse than I suspected early on.
	At first, I think it's because our methods have gotten better over time, but at first I wasn't seeing this much glyphosate.
	And I did some tests for glyphosate in beer, but the good news there is that I know that was accurate because those were liquid samples.
	The improvements that we've made is in the extraction techniques from solids.
	So it's the solids now where we're starting to see a lot higher levels of glyphosate, especially in organics, or I guess we have been for the past several months, but it's a wave of organic but contaminated products.
	And it just goes to show you that the organic certification is almost meaningless at this point.
	I mean, we've seen high lead in organic products, high cadmium.
	We've seen arsenic.
	We've seen glyphosate.
	Organic, it just seems to be meaningless.
	Sadly, it's been watered down or taken over.
	It's kind of like a greenwashing thing now.
	To the point where when I see the USDA organic label, even though I used to believe that that really meant something, now I don't think it means anything.
	Especially if it's organic from China, then it's just a fraud.
	So sadly, the USDA has totally failed.
	And sadly, organic doesn't mean anything.
	And we're seeing that in the lab.
	I mean, I've seen lower levels of glyphosate in non-organic foods than I have in many organic products.
	It's just incredible.
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