Four out of five Americans are being exposed to a little-known chemical found in popular oat-based foods — including Cheerios and Quaker Oats — that is linked to reduced fertility, altered fetal growth, and delayed puberty.
The Environmental Working Group published a study in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on Thursday that found a staggering 80% of Americans tested positive for a harmful pesticide called chlormequat.
The “highly toxic agricultural chemical” is federally allowed to be used on oats and other grains imported to the US, according to the EWG. When applied to oat and grain crops, chlormequat alters a plant’s growth, preventing it from bending over and thus making it easier to harvest, per the EWG.
“Just as troubling, we detected the chemical in 92% of oat-based foods purchased in May 2023, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios,” the nonprofit organization said in a report published alongside the group’s findings.
General Mills, which makes Cheerios, and PepsiCo, which makes Quaker Oats, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Another particularly concerning data point: After testing for the presence of chlormequat in urine collected from 96 people between 2017 and 2023, the EWG’s tests “found higher levels and more frequent detections of chlormequat in the 2023 samples…which suggests consumer exposure to chlormequat could be on the rise.”
For reference, chlormequat was detected in 69% of study participants in 2017. The number edged higher, to 74%, between 2018 and 2022, and spiked to 90% in 2023.
Since chlormequat typically leaves the body within 24 hours, such a high concentration of positive tests indicates that Americans are regularly being exposed to the pesticide, according to the EWG’s report earlier reported on by the Daily Mail.
Though research about chlormequat is ongoing, the EWG noted, studies have shown its potential effects on animals, which “raises questions about whether it could also harm humans,” the EWG said.
In animal studies, chlormequat has damaged reproductive systems and disrupted fetal growth in animals, “changing development of the head and bones and altering key metabolic processes.”
EWG also tested 20 more oat-based foods for chlormequat, plus seven organic, 13 non-organic, and nine wheat-based products, the EWG said, though it didn’t specify which brands’ foods it tested.
Detectable levels of the chemical in question were found on 92% of non-organic oat-based foods, while only two samples of wheat-based foods — both of them bread — had low levels of chlormequat.
Only one of the seven organic samples had low levels of chlormequat.
The activist group said that it would continue studying chlormequat and its harmful effects, and called for answers from the federal government, including whether the Food and Drug Administration should mandate that US foods be tested for chlormequat.
However, the EWG noted, that the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden’s administration proposed allowing the first-ever use of chlormequat on barley, oat, triticale, and wheat grown in the US.
The EWG declared that it opposes the “dangerous” April 2023 decision — which came in response to a request by chlormequat manufacturer Taminco.
The FDA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Taminco couldn’t be reached for comment.
Until the government puts parameters around chlormequat and its use, the EWG urged consumers to opt for organic oats growth without synthetic pesticides like chlormequat when they want their oat fix.
“EWG recommendation for shoppers is to buy organic oat products since these oats are grown without the use of toxic pesticides such as chlormequat and glyphosate,” EWG’s vice president of science investigations, Olga Naidenko, told The Post.
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Thank god for the FDA and USDA…right?
And our farmers. Because even if it gets approved, US farmers wouldn’t poison us with it…. right?
pharmers. yes. subsidized miners. & you know what subsidy does. & the subverting ilk it attracts. & the toxic piles of leeching tails/tales it leaves in its wake.
Milch: It’s very well-documented that the obscenity of the west was striking but the obscenity of the mining camps was unbelievable. And there was a reason for that. Which had to do with the very fundamental quality of their behavior. They were raping the land. They weren’t growing anything. They weren’t respecting the cycles of nature. They were taking. And in order to muscle up for that enterprise, in an environment where there were no laws, you know, apes beat their chests a lot so they don’t have to fight 24 hours a day, & the relentless obscenity of the miner was a way of announcing the compatibility of his spirit with the world in which he found himself.
It’s the dosage that makes the poison. Nothing else. Water is a poison if you drink enough of it a once. This idiot article made no reference whatsoever to the levels at which the chemical was found, or of what levels would be needed to provoke a deleterious effect if consumed by humans. As such, it’s nothing more than irrational fear-mongering. As if we don’t have enough of that already!
So chlormequat is like a micronutrient, good to have in very small doses? You can drink Roundup and it won’t kill you on the spot. Still don’t recall that dude doing it when he claimed that, though.
Drink paraquat, faggot.
Nothing else?
What about summing all the disparate doses?
Or even just summoning the friendly bureaucrats/cientismers tasked with keeping that list & checking it twice?
And now that we got the magic AI all the cascading interactions of disparate doses inside unique individuals can be vectored off at the Passchendaele, too?
By now – long before now – benefit of the doubt ties do not go to these runners.
Agreed. Written for the same audience that thinks “anti-bacterial “ soap makes any damned difference at all.
Bored? Look up the 5 main populations of bacteria that travel, life long, with you. Scrub manically all you want.
They never go away. If they do, you’re dead.
If you are still eating processed food, you are eating poison.
Do you know how easily you can make your own potato chips, corn chips,
flavored any way you like, breakfast cereals, ice cream, anything without any toxins? Why eat corporate shit food? Reggiano parmesan popcorn will change your life.
Use avacado oil, or olive oil, fresh ingrdients, (I like Sprouts Stores) and the food is
beyond good. My wife and I make lots of “junk food” from scratch, and it isn’t junk. Try baking grated parmesan cheese with a little homemade bread crumbs, salt, and a bit of garlic until crisp for the best “chips” you ever ate.
Let’s get a healthy food recipe day/thread going like Friday Fail.
Admin?
My daughter says, “Ain’t nobody got time for that shit!” Jokingly. She wishes she did.
But it costs a lot and takes a lot of time to eat healthy these days. It’s gotten to the point that I can eat nothing pre-made from the market. Bread, chips, snacks. I get ill. As a result, I have slimmed down significantly and my gut has never been happier. Imagine what all these convenience foods do to the gut biome!
I am old enough to remember when breakfast cereals were actually good. In the last 50 years, we have been poisoned to obesity and chronic sickness.
Most of the farms in the U.S. these days are not independent farms, but owned by the likes of Bills Gates. Those mega corporate farms are mostly worked by foreign nationals living in the country illegally.
Not true where I live
Ummm. You must know that the ‘D’ in those acronyms stands for “drug”, right? BUT Chlormequat isn’t a drug, so why would the FDA and the USDA have any part in regulating it?
Moreover, Chlormequat isn’t even a pesticide or an insecticide — it’s a giberellin! It simply regulates plant growth. If only those who continually feel the need to ring the alarm bells over every little thing (or nothing at all) could do a little basic research before engaging in their foolish compulsion!
USDA is the United States Department of Agriculture.
It was Ronald Reagan who deregulated big agri-big pharma. Rendering them useless in protecting the public from big corporate farming and medicine. Obama re-empowered and weaponized our federal acronyms to protect big corporate interests from the scrutiny of the public.
Since he Reagan died I have become aware he was one of the most destructive presidents America has ever had. A true traitorous snake.
People should know by now all our food is poisoned.
… except that which they’re trying to outlaw — the food we grow ourselves.
Somehow, there must be a message in there …
yes. they want to cull us. to 500 million
Well, the food we grow ourselves is being poisoned from the skies.
Gee, there’s an alternate source for a collective detox triggered from person to person via bioelectric entrainment.
So, the real reason for all those wonderful “free trade agreements” was to allow use of pesticides banned in the uSA, in other countries, and then import the poisoned food into America?
Sounds right.
one irrational ultrashort time preference ‘reason’ for sure.
‘chlordane’ saideth EPA is perfectly safe when used as prescribed & perfectly compatible with moms, apple pies, & the flags of our termite-miner fathers.
‘until’, like big tobacchanalia & so many others, it wasn’t.
then, after much damage done, the next move on the board was banning domestic production.
so the ‘american’ square (one dimensional cube:borg), ‘a world unto itself’ (uses/misuses of solipsism) solves the iquation dissonance by moving – swallowing – the nutritious calories to another/other square/s.
the squares are segments of self-swallowing snake. real snakes don’t do that (tho some do eat other snakes).
Nobody EATS tobacco. Get a clue! LOL
Mystic fibrosis is an advantage in the game of Clue … cuz like handicapped parking gets those folks closer to POS?
Giberellins aren’t “pesticides”. Similar to auxins, they are growth regulators produced naturally within the plant. Whenever you eat any plant you’re consuming both auxins and giberellins. All plants contain them!
Agent Orange is an auxin.
“… preventing it from bending over …”
Can we get some for our congresscritters?
It should be sprayed directly onto all of those still wearing the diaper or getting or pushing the jab …
GLYPHOSATE TOXICITY ALERT: HOW AMERICA’S #1 WEEDKILLER TRICKS YOUR BODY INTO ABSORBING IT.
By Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc
• The Inside Track on Glyphosate
• Glyphosate Toxicity: The Many Dangers
• Pesticides Taint Most Foods
• Protect Yourself from Glyphosate Toxicity
THE MOST EFFECTIVE GLYPHOSATE DEFENSE TEAM INCLUDES:
• Citrus pectin: A soluble fiber known to detoxify heavy metals and clear cholesterol through its superior binding powers
• ALGINATE (purified from kelp): Proven to protect against pesticide toxicity and effectively remove heavy metals and toxins
• GLYCINE: An amino acid needed to create glutathione — a powerful detoxifier and antioxidant that also protects the liver against toxicity. Interestingly, the body can mistake glyphosate for glycine during protein synthesis, tricking it into storing toxic glyphosate in tissues and organs. By supplementing with extra glycine, we can prevent glyphosate from being stored, enhance glutathione activity, and help support healthy protein production.
The top glycine-rich sources include collagen and bone broth, but it’s also found in legumes, meat, dairy, poultry, eggs and fish. Even some fruits and vegetables contain glycine, like spinach, cabbage, kale, bananas and cauliflower.
• GINGKO BIULOBA: An ancient herb found to be a powerful protector against glyphosate toxicity
• ORGANIC ICELAND KELP: A rich source of protective minerals including iodine, which prevents the absorption of radioactive ions and toxic pesticide halogens like fluoride, bromide, and chlorine
• PROBIOTICS AND PREBIOTICS: Needed to restore beneficial gut bacteria killed off by glyphosate
There are three amino acids I take regularly: NAC, Taurine, and Glycine.
Glyphosate Toxicity, another of Alex Jones “crazy conspiracy theories” that turned out to be true.
Warren,
I was ‘crazy’ about the government poisoning me decades before Jones…Agent Orange…sprayed and betrayed in the 60’s…figured it out in the early 80’s…starting serious detoxing…never stopped over the decades. I became a subject matter detoxing expert…massive research.
Then one day I looked up and saw a spreading white tic tac toe board over my head and then the blue sky became a fuzzy white…then I became a subject matter expert in Chemtrails…massive research.
The Government has been in the poisoning business a long, long time…in many ways…the Covid Needle Rides were their hidden in plain sight master piece.
TLPTB (L=Luciferian) have been spraying/bombing (through Bankster funded wars) the people (all are considered Useless Eaters including their MIC Enforceres) soon after the technology was available.
They also have been injecting the ‘Useless Eaters’ with poisoned so called ‘Vaccines’…and then at WARP SPEED by the believed and still believed anti-Billary savior…that were really just poison experiments (confirmed through the experiments certain lots would kill and disable – that fact is long out) the anti-Billary savior called them Vaccines…
Yet so many still find one reason or another to sit in the audience and clap and excuse the anti-Billary savior…for all of the other MIS DIRECTION.
While about 65% of Americans have various levels of Warp Speed poisons cursing through the blood brain barrier.
BUT DON’T WORRY HE WILL BUILD THE WALL!
The blood stream, the air, the water (fluoride) the food/soil has been poisoned for so long in so many ways…I am amazed at how fearfully and wonderfully we are made.
I’m 74…but I have been detoxing for over 40 years…it started with Agent Orange…but it was maintained with the reality of all the other poisons listed above that were coming at me and mine…there are other factors but if you detox…and limit the poisons going into that hole under your mouth…you will be amazed at how you will slow the aging process down compared to all your dead, sick, lackluster, fat, OLD peers.
detox means a lot of stuff.? Which works for you?
Take NAC to detoxify. The stuff is a miracle!
Doug,
1. Fasting (water and or fresh veggie/fruit juice).
2. Intermittent fasting.
3. Inferred Sauna
4. Complete Heavy Metal Detox
5. Zeolite (prefer the powder)
6. Food Grade Activated Charcoal
7. Milk Thistle Extract
8. NAC
9. Spirulina & Chlorella
but you never mention chlorine dioxide, why is that ?
you need to do more research, the most effective detox
and not a word from you, ex spurt indeed
It was actually Biden and his corrupt Deep State Democrats who tried to mandate their experimental GMO poison jabs onto the American People. President Trump didn’t personally develop them, nor hide all of the adverse side effects, nor force them on anyone. That was Fauci and Big Pharma who stood to make millions through their treachery and greed.
Nice try there, dummy — but your acute TDS is showing. LOL
Haaaaaa….President WARP SPEED saved 100 million lives!
Just ask him…he will tell you that…to this day!
Trouble is no one is asking him about that.
Stick around dude…let’s talk Trump’s Kabbalah training and his multiple bankruptcies in the 90’s bailed out by the Rothschild’s…
Take a look at the time line in the link above…counter it…come on take a try???
Oh yea, and the 17 trillion he printed to bail out the Banksters???
You know the ones who bailed him out…who he bailed out.
You know what Kabbalah training means right useless thinker???
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Oh hey look TBP we have a Mystic claiming poor WARP SPEED had nothing to do with the poisoning of 65% of Americans…
So what kind of Mystic are you Mystic???
MYSTICISM – KABBALAH AND MYSTICISM 101
Jewish mysticism has taken many forms.
Inquiring minds want to know?
WHAT IS THE KABBALAH? (And Why Is It So Bad?)
May 9, 2018 by Yvonne Nachtigal
Trump gave us the vaxx. What is wrong with people like you?
Maybe he Zohar’s like Donald did?
I did a little reading of the zohar a few years back. I don’t know what the fuck most of it was but it is certainly un-fucking-healthy to any real human’s mind.
the vaxxine came from the US department of defense trumpo
was just the useful idiot salesman
You do realize that we all lived through the past several years, right?
There aren’t a ton of retards hanging around here, so…
Fucking lmao, it’s a trumptard
A FNG Mystical one to boot!
you are the classic fucktard. fauci was a trump employee. trump used the military to distribute the bioweapon because it was a weapon. trump lost in 2020 on purpose so that he could make “biden” do his dirty work.
Giberellins aren’t glyphosates. get a clue! LOL
You could at least pretend to not be a new shill.
Does it turn everybody sexually confused? Is that why we have 50 percent of kids in fag parades now.
No. We have 50 percent of kids in fag parades because not enough people will admit the answer is National Socialism.
It is THE ONLY solution to this sick twisted world. If the National Socialists would have won, marxism/communism would have been wiped from the face of the Earth. America wouldn’t be in the insane mess it’s in today, neither would Europe! Our governments, media and all institutions are now all INFESTED with communist/globalist satanic scum!
FDR approved of your ideas. In fact, he got almost free rein to impose them during the Great Depression! Things were great back then, weren’t they?
And let’s not forget how rich you can get working for a NatSoc regime! Just ask George Soros!
Commander Rockwell tried, not enough of you heard the message
o/
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No, that’s due to the reckless over-consumption of soybeans — and stupid Democrat platitudes. “You can be anything you want” is simply a LIE.
You can’t be a cat, a dog, a bird, or a member of the opposite sex just because you want to. Nor can you be a doctor or a professional if you don’t have the intellectual capacity, and can’t pass the scholastic requirements. Democrats might want to stop instilling such blatant stupidities into their impressionable young kids if they want them to grow up to be sane individuals.
Does that mean fag parades are 50% children (horrifying)?
or 50% of children have been to fag parades (even more horrifying if they see it up close)?
Not sure what can be done about this and micro-plastics. Getting people worked up over poison in the environment that can never be removed is pointless.
bill53,
Never say never…I suspect you are already filled with poisons…but are only worried about one that is pointless to worry about?
You said: “Getting people worked up over poison in the environment that can never be removed is pointless”.
How about stopping the all the poisoning…and hanging the poisoners…and if we don’t have time just shoot them?
That doesn’t sound pointless to me.
I think all the other poisoners would get the point.
After a fair trial of course (no reason to get worked up…right bill)…with all of the rule of law…by a jury of the loved ones…of the poisoner’s victims.
With the right attitude this wouldn’t be pointless…
See what I mean?
Nobody’s forcing you to eat anything. If you’re so afraid of everything, then you’re probably going to starve to death in short order. That may be your choice, but it’s not mine.
I live on my own built by my hands and my hard earned money farm dude…living the dream…that’s my choice.
You’re saying this to the people on here actually growing or trying to grow all their own food. Sans poisons.
It’d be a lot easier without people like you whoring yourselves out to the ag-oligarchs.
The Globalists stated agenda is to get you to eat BUGS — and LIKE it! What better way is there than to convince you that everything else is somehow toxic? And isn’t it curious that they haven’t told you that the chitin that makes up those bug exoskeletons is also highly carcinogenic?
Meanwhile, otherwise sane people continue to pay more taxes to stop ‘Global Warming’ due to carbon from “fossil fuels” when in reality, CO2 is NOT a major cause of warming, AND we’re also living on top of the very thin crust of a rocky planet whose molten core is literally thousands of degrees hotter than the surface.
If only people would use their brains, instead of listening to all of these lying politicians with their faked agendas! Sad.
Farmer Bill Gates…
Because if they called it chlormequat, kids wouldn’t eat it.
Cheerios it is!
i am glad i gave up grains.
And just what do you think cattle and hogs and chickens eat — obviously not many of them are raised organically …
What can you do? Become a soy boy?
Do what you can, grow or raise whatever plants or animals you can. Even if you fuck up badly, it’s almost impossible to do worse than what you buy in the store or even what you get from locals. And learn to cook, wean yourself from anything already processed.
Cattle eat grass. Hogs and chickens are omnivores and will eat almost any edible waste like dairy, produce, etc. The results are dramatically different from commercially produced beef, poultry, and pork.
Keep eating what your enemy feeds you morons. It’s outsourced oats. Probably Ukrainian. What’s not to like when food ingredients of your favorite things become global? Might as well switch to bugs.
Clearly nobody who posted this drivel or commented on it READ the Study which used a grand total of just 96 people of which 77 tested positive for what they were after