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

(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…

Glyphosate (Roundup) Carcinogenic In the Parts Per Trillion Range

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Waking Times

An alarming new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, is estrogenic and drives breast cancer cell proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range. Does this help explain the massive mammary tumors that the only long term animal feeding study on Roundup and GM corn ever performed recently found?

An alarming new study, accepted for publication in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology last month, indicates that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide due to its widespread use in genetically engineered agriculture, is capable of driving estrogen receptor mediated breast cancer cell proliferation within the infinitesimal parts per trillion concentration range.[i]

The study, titled, “Glyphosate induces human breast cancer cells growth via estrogen receptors,” compared the effect of glyphosate on hormone-dependent and hormone-independent breast cancer cell lines, finding that glyphosate stimulates hormone-dependent cancer cell lines in what the study authors describe as “low and environmentally relevant concentrations.”

The results were broken down by the researchers as follows:

• Glyphosate induces T47D, hormone dependent breast cancer cell growth.
• The proliferative effect of glyphosate is mediated via estrogen receptors.