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As my chemisty professor explained to me many years ago, its not the glyphosate that makes Roundup dangerous, its the byproducts and accidental ingredients. Ro
by ArtDev 10y ago
As my chemisty professor explained to me many years ago, its not the glyphosate that makes Roundup dangerous, its the byproducts and accidental ingredients.
Roundup is made from recycled chemicals. Every batch is different and some of it has lots of heavy metals.
- johnm1019 10y agoThis is much more interesting than the article. Is there anywhere that explains how roundup is made and highlights this fact?
- ArtDev 10y agoI haven't looked into it, but I have always been curious about it. I would imagine that many chemical processes from industry have byproducts that are recycled and used in different ways. Putting them into cheap products like Roundup makes sense, from a pure business perspective.
- DanBC 10y agoIt would make the MSDS fucking useless. Since these are regulated (at least, in the EU) I find it hard to believe that monsanto puts any of shit into a barrel, and some glyphosate, and then puts a Roundup label on it.
- ArtDev 10y agoI do. It is dirt cheap. Maybe you can trust the safety standards in Europe but here in the US, government regulation for food safety is notoriously bad. The FDA has been broken for years.
- hathawsh 10y agoYour explanation is appealing because it fits Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." If you're right, then we're putting chemicals of unknown toxicity in homes everywhere. Do you have anything else to back up this assertion?
- ArtDev 10y agoUnfortunately, no. Just what my distinguished chemistry professor told me almost twenty years ago.
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- microcolonel 10y agoYou stated "I was a biology major" in another part of the thread as justification for your claims, but you indicate that you got this information from your chemistry professor, not a biology professor. I'd say that's a bit deceptive in itself. On top of this, you can't seem to cite anything, and you are the only one here claiming this. I challenge you to buy some Roundup and test it for heavy metals, then make the results available. Otherwise please do cite equivalent research.
- epalmer 10y agoI agree that her/she needs to cite evidence. But biology majors can take chemistry, right?
- ArtDev 10y agoIt is required. You can't graduate with a biology degree without at least a year of chemistry.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoNo way.
- ArtDev 10y agoI don't have access to a gas spectrometer. You would think that someone would have tested it, but I cannot find the information anywhere. An MSDS sheet will not list trace ingredients. If you Google this, mostly you only get junk results. Its not easy to find this out. As I said, all I have is what my chemistry professor told me.
- sndean 10y ago> Every batch is different and some of it has lots of heavy metals. This part may have been confused with glyphosate's ability to chelate metals? [1] ... I doubt any large company that's strictly regulated, and who employs professional chemists/chemical engineers, would have toxic impurity issues. But it's possible that it's concentrating metals in the environment. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945589/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945589/
- ArtDev 10y agoInteresting. Heavy metals are a problem with sewage based fertilizers.