Dozens more breakfast foods test positive for trace amounts of weed killer, report says
Story Date: 10/29/2018

 

Source: Aman Azad, WRAL, 10/25/18

Dozens of common breakfast cereals and snack bars have trace amounts of a controversial herbicide found in the weed killer Roundup, according to a report released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that 26 of the 28 products it tested had levels of Roundup's main ingredient, glyphosate, that were "higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children's health." An earlier report found similar results in over thirty oat-based foods.

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