IS their a recall on Flour with Roundup in it?

imasinger

Sat, Nov 23 2019, 6:11 pm

You don't need to worry.

In a few places, wheat was sprayed to dry it out, but not enough to present a hazard, and only in a few farm areas in the Dakotas. Here is some information from Snopes.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch.....oxic/

Quote:

Fact Checks
Food
The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic
Are U.S. farmers saturating wheat crops with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide as a desiccant to facilitate a quicker harvest?
DAVID MIKKELSON
ALEX KASPRAK
PUBLISHED 25 DECEMBER 2014
UPDATED 26 JULY 2017

Claim
U.S. farmers are saturating wheat crops with the herbicide Roundup as a desiccant before each harvest, causing an increase in wheat-related ailments.

Rating

Mixture
About this rating
What's True
RoundUp (glyphosate) is sometimes used as a desiccant to alter the timing of wheat harvests, but that practice is far from common in the United States.

What's False
Claims that the practice is both widespread and the cause of digestive ailments are unsupported by credible evidence or accurately reported data.

[SNIP]

While the data on glyphosate use in pre-harvest application is either proprietary or non-existent, the testimony of numerous farmers speak to the fact that glyphosate desiccation is a rare practice in the United States, with its use generally relegated to North and South Dakota. One such piece, republished on Huffington Post, reports:

Pre-harvesting wheat with glyphosate (most commonly Roundup) is not something the majority of wheat farmers across the nation do. There is a small sector and region of wheat production that practices this: mainly North Dakota, small parts of South Dakota, and parts of Canada. In the United States, North Dakota represents about 5% of total wheat acres produced. We are, however, the second hard red spring wheat producer in the nation. So the claim that this occurs everywhere is not at all valid or true since only about 5% of the total production practices this pre-harvesting.

We ourselves surveyed a number of farmers in the Walla Walla Valley, which has been a large wheat-growing area for many years, and found none who had engaged in — or even heard of — the practice of “desiccating” wheat with Roundup just prior to harvest.

While the practice of glyphosate desiccation exists in some regions in the United States, the claim that it is a “common” practice in America is not supported by any correctly described data.

[SNIP]

Our rating of “mixture” recognizes that, indeed, glyphosate is sometimes used as a desiccant, but that its practice is far from common in the United States. We reject the notion, however, that this “common” practice of U.S. farmers “saturating” wheat crops with Roundup herbicide as a desiccant before each harvest has been causing an increase in wheat-related ailments, as these claims are unsupported even by the research cited in articles making such a claim.