{"id":2851,"date":"2012-03-06T00:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2012-03-28T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:34:11","slug":"glyphosate-in-monsantos-roundup-impacts-global-health-german-researchers-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Glyphosate in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup Impacts Global Health: German researchers&rsquo; findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Logo-Monsanto.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2852\" title=\"Logo- Monsanto\" src=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Logo-Monsanto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>On January 26th, 2012 the newspaper <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Natural Society<\/span> reported that Monsanto&rsquo;s Roundup may have damaging side effects on humans in areas where the herbicide is used. According to an article entitled \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monsanto\u2019s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested<\/span>\u201c, \u201cit was found that glyphosate, contained in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> is contaminating the groundwater in the areas in which it is used<\/span>. What does this mean? It means that toxic glyphosate is now polluting the world\u2019s drinking water through the widespread contamination of aquifers, wells and springs\u201d.\u00a0An \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">escalating rates of mental illness and obesity<\/span>\u201c have also been noticed by researchers in areas the Monsanto&rsquo;s product has been used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article also mentions that \u201cresearchers tested roundup on mature male rats at a concentration range between 1 and 10,000 parts per million (ppm), and found that within 1 to 48 hours of exposure, testicular cells of the mature rats were either damaged or killed. Even at a concentration of 1 ppm, the Roundup was able to affect the test subjects by decreasing their testosterone concentrations by as much as 35%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Africa &amp; Science<\/span><\/strong> contacted Monsanto on January 27th, 2012 with the intention of having the point of view of the company on these findings which have been made by a German research team. Untill today, we have received no answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Source: Mike Barrett, \u201cMonsanto\u2019s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested \u201c, in: Natural Society, January 26th, 2012, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/monsantos-infertility-linked-roundup-found-in-all-urine-samples-tested\/#ixzz1oPdhr9Uv<\/span><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Author:<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Moses Chiadjeu<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Africa &amp; Science<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 26th, 2012 the newspaper Natural Society reported that Monsanto&rsquo;s Roundup may have damaging side effects on humans in areas where the herbicide is used. According to an article entitled \u201cMonsanto\u2019s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested\u201c, \u201cit was found that glyphosate, contained in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup, is contaminating the groundwater in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}