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It's not just 2mg/day; it's 2mg/day/kg of body weight. So a woman who weighs 110lbs (50kg) would have to drink 50 times that, or 5000 pints in one day to pass
by mortenjorck 8y ago
It's not just 2mg/day; it's 2mg/day/kg of body weight.
So a woman who weighs 110lbs (50kg) would have to drink 50 times that, or 5000 pints in one day to pass the EPA limit.
Obviously most people won't drink that in a year, and this article is fairly useless for limiting itself to the easy-clicks topic of booze versus industrial agriculture chemicals. What I think would be interesting is to look at, across an average diet, what one's total daily glyphosate exposure might be, against any relevant clinical information, but that's more of a research paper than a piece of blog content.
- squift 8y agoOh, thank you for catching that! I can't believe I missed such a big detail.
- tedmcory77 8y agoWhats the clearance rate? Does it store in fat? What is the dosage from other things in the diet. Those are very important questions.
- cylinder 8y agoAmazing when you consider the confidence espoused in the tone of the original post and the dismissiveness of a major safety matter. And it's still the top comment here two days later. This is on HN, what hope do the commons have?