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Saturday, February 17th, 2024

Alarming levels of weed killer found in study of pregnant women

Author:     Johnathan Hettinger and Carey Gillam
Source:     The New Lede
Publication Date:     Fri 16 Feb 2024
Link: Alarming levels of weed killer found in study of pregnant women
Stephan:  

I have been following and warning you about the pollution of the bodies of Americans, particularly pregnant women, by chemicals used in both industrial chemical monoculture agriculture and home landscaping. It gets very little coverage in television media, and not much more in newspapers. Well, here is yet another study warning Americans to avoid exposure to chemicals like 2,4-D, or Glyphosate. This is particularly true if you are pregnant. Because of the corruption of the U.S. government, however, the EPA has not banned these chemicals, which are outlawed in most other developed nations. So let me advise you again, do not use anything that contains these chemicals, and it you live in a farm state, or near a commercial farm get tested frequently. Frankly, I wouldn’t continue to live near such a farm. As this article describes if you do so you put yourself and your family are risk. And don’t buy anything made by Bayer or Monsanto.

Credit: The New Lede

Pregnant women in a key US farm state are showing increasing amounts of a toxic weedkiller in their urine, a rise that comes alongside climbing use of the chemicals in agriculture, according to a study published on Friday.

The study, led by the Indiana University School of Medicine, showed that 70% of pregnant women tested in Indiana between 2020 and 2022 had a herbicide called dicamba in their urine, up from 28% from a similar analysis for the period 2010-12. The earlier study included women in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.

Notably, the study also found that along with a larger percentage of women showing the presence of dicamba in their bodies, the concentrations of the weed-killing chemical increased more than fourfold.

Both studies found that 100% of the women tested had 2,4-dichloroacetic acid, better known as 2,4-D, in their urine; the more recent study showed detectable, but not significant, increases in concentration levels.

The findings add to a growing body of literature documenting human exposure to chemicals used in agriculture, and various known and potential health impacts. Many […]

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1 Comment

  1. Gene Jonas on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 6:04 am

    We operate a small scale produce farm that grows to organic standards for our community. Therefore, we see no need to use persistent synthetic toxins like those mentioned in the article. I have recently put together a presentation on The True Cost of Food and have been speaking at local libraries, schools and conferences. My presentation includes sections on these agri-chemicals and the cost they impose on peoples health and environmental destruction. I can send you a file with links in it to files on my google drive used in my talk. Thanks Stephan for reporting on this issue.