American public health organization: Quaker Kale's breakfast crisps oats contain carcinogenic herbicides

A public health organization in the United States said that its latest study found that a series of breakfast crisps, oatmeal, snack bars and other products popular with American children have detected the over-standard carcinogenic herbicide "Jiaposai", and there is no lack of well-known brands.

The British newspaper The Guardian reported that the public health organization Environmental working Group (Environmental Working Group,EWG) found 43 samples of oatmeal samples containing gabion plugs. Jiaposai is the main ingredient in the popular herbicide brand Roundup (or spring every year).

According to the data published on the EWG website, a total of 45 traditional samples and 16 organic samples were tested. Of the 16 organic samples, 5 were found to contain gabion plug, but none of them exceeded the 160ppb health standard recognized by EWG, but 43 of 45 traditional samples were found to contain garnet, and 31 samples exceeded the standard.

EWG said some of the products that exceeded the standard came from Quaker, Kellogg's and General Mills, which makes Cheerios.

A spokesman for General Mills and Kellogg said that their food is safe and meets the strict food safety standards laid down by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Quaker also said that the safety and quality of the products are enough to reassure consumers.

However, EWG said that manufacturers follow long-outdated federal standards, most of the products tested exceed the standards, and more stringent safety standards for gabion content must be set.

Ken Cook, chairman of EWG, said: "No one wants to eat herbicide for breakfast, and people should not eat it." Cook said they would urge the EPA to restrict the use of garnet for food crops, but companies should act on their own initiative because of concerns about the "lawlessness" of the Trump administration's oversight mechanism.

Before EWG released the study, a court in San Francisco ordered Monsanto to compensate a 46-year-old former gardener whose cancer was caused by Monsanto's annual spring herbicide and that Monsanto neglected to warn each other of the risk of exposure to the herbicide environment.

According to the Guardian, emails from within the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April showed that scientists found caproate plugs in most daily foods and found it difficult to find foods without them. FDA has not issued any official statement on this, but there is no indication that the claim is related to products outside the United States.