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Urgent action alert: EPA about to raise allowable concentrations of glyphosate on food crops, edible oils and animal feed – comments needed by July 1

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(NaturalNews) This is an urgent action alert from Natural News and the Health  Ranger. Public comments are due by July 1 to object to new EPA regulations which  are already in place, allowing glyphosate contamination of food crops,  edible oils and waterways at concentrations which are thousands of times higher  than the amount needed to cause cancer.
The new regulation, which can be  viewed  HERE, sets the following regulations regarding glyphosate residues on  crops:
• It allows forage and hay teff to contain up to 100 ppm  glyphosate (that’s over one million times the concentration needed to cause  cancer according  to a recent study). See PubMed source here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23756170
• Allows  oilseed crops (flax oil, canola oil, soybean oil, olive oil, etc.) to contain up  to 40 ppm glyphosate (which is over 100,000 times the concentration needed to  cause cancer)
• RAISES the allowable glyphosate contamination level of  root crops (such as potatoes) from 200 ppb to 6000 ppb.
• Allows  glyphosate contamination of fruits at anywhere from 200 ppb to 500  ppb.
Importantly, the EPA says no one even commented on all this when it  was initially filed! “There were no comments received in response to the notice  of filing.” Since then, a total of just 396 people have posted a public comment  at the time of this story being published.
You can post your comments  with the EPA at this page: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0132-00… Read the rest of this entry