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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (846175)3/30/2015 12:10:49 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1576184
 
Water is toxic if you drink enough of it. Everything is.

There are many nontoxic substances I wouldn't consume, including asparagus, crawfish and raw oysters.

But the "scientist" (quotes are yours) is technically, scientifically correct:

Human toxicity Human acute toxicity is dose-related. Acute fatal toxicity has been reported in deliberate overdose. [46] [47] Early epidemiological studies did not find associations between long-term low-level exposure to glyphosate and any disease. [48] [49] [50] In 2013 the European commission reviewed a 2002 finding that had concluded equivocal evidence existed of a relationship between glyphosate exposure during pregnancy and cardiovascular malformations and found the evidence "fails to support a potential risk for increased cardiovascular defects as a result of glyphosate exposure during pregnancy." [51] A 2013 review found that neither glyphosate nor typical glyphosphate-based formulations (GBFs) pose a genotoxicity risk in humans under normal conditions of human or environmental exposures. [52]

US Environmental Protection Agency position The EPA, which last reviewed glyphosate in 1993, considers glyphosate to be noncarcinogenic and relatively low in dermal and oral acute toxicity. [25] The EPA considered a "worst case" dietary risk model of an individual eating a lifetime of food derived entirely from glyphosate-sprayed fields with residues at their maximum levels. This model indicated that no adverse health effects would be expected under such conditions. [25] As of March 2015, the EPA was in the midst of reviewing glyphosate's toxicity. [7]

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