Harmful chemicals are present in cereals, says reports

According to a report by Environmental Working Group (EWG), most of America’s popular breakfast food comes with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison. There are traces of glyphosate, an active chemical ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, was found in two among the 45 products that were made with oats.


Some of those products included Back to Nature Classic Granola, Quaker Dinosaur Egg Instant Oats, Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal, Lucky Charms, Quaker Steel Cut Oats and Kellog’s Nutrigrain Strawberry Breakfast Bars, Nature Valley Granola Protein Oats ‘n Honey, Great Value Original Instant Oatmeal. But this also doesn’t mean that they are violating the limit as decided by the Environmental Protection Agency.


EWG President Ken Cook said, “I grew up eating Cheerios and Quaker Oats long before they were tainted with glyphosate. No one wants to eat a weed killer for breakfast, and no one should have to do so. There is also a plan to intimate and petition the EPA (the United States Environmental Protection Agency) to stop using glyphosate.”


Monsanto said, “An adult would have to eat 118 pounds of the food item every day for the rest of their life in order to reach the EPA’s limit for glyphosate residues.” However, glyphosate has been identified as carcinogenic by the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer. It is also listed by California as a chemical that can cause cancer.