Commonly Used Herbicide Found to be Toxic to Your Mouth Cells and Much More

Posted By Dr. Mercola | March 29 2012

New research finds that glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup Ultra Max, causes both cellular and DNA damage to the cells inside your mouth and throat. The damage includes chromosomal abnormalities that ultimately kill cells at higher concentrations. Importantly, DNA damage occurred at concentrations below those required to induce cell damage, suggesting that the DNA damage was caused directly by glyphosate instead of being an indirect result of cell toxicity, according to the Institute of Science in Society.

Glyphosate is highly soluble in water, so impacts on aquatic wildlife may be of particular concern, especially following the recent report on the presence of glyphosate in rain water, groundwater, rivers and air, the Society writes on its website.

Scientists from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, made this discovery in an extensive study. "These results may explain some of the ailments observed in people who work with this herbicide and adds yet more weight to an outright ban of the herbicide," the Society said.