Study Finds 85% of Feminine Hygiene Products Are Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Herbicide

This is alarming – a study conducted by a researchers from the University of La Plata in Argentina earlier this year found that 85% of tampons, cotton, and other hygiene products contain traces of glyphosate (Roundup). Another 62% tested positive for its environmental metabolite AMPA, which has been found to potentially be 1,000 times more toxic in the body. Gauze samples tested positive 100% of the time.

This means that when you put these cotton products in your ears, broken skin and even inside your body’s most sensitive parts, you are bound to absorb those toxic metabolites.

The herbicide glyphosate (best known as Roundup by Monsanto) is considered by the World Health Organization to be a probable carcinogen. And this is what millions of women are exposing themselves unknowingly to every day.

Monsanto’s Roundup is the world’s most popular weed killer and most of the cotton in countries like the US and Argentina use Roundup-resistant GM cotton that is sprayed with Roundup. This is also the case with much of the corn and soy we consume.

This means that traces of this toxic herbicide can be found in our food and, now we know, feminine hygiene products — even though the WHO found it to be a “probable carcinogen” (meaning that it was found carcinogenic in animal studies).

Luckily, many countries like Columbia, France, and Sri Lanka have placed restrictions on glyphosate to protect both human and wildlife health.

Here’s what you can do to stay safe from those harmful products:

Investigate alternative feminine hygiene products such as Yoni tampons, pads and panty liners which are made from organic cotton, declared to be free of toxins. Plus they are biodegradable and hence environmentally friendlier.

Monsanto maintains the safety of their product, citing its approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which “classified the carcinogenicity potential of glyphosate as Category E: ‘evidence of non-carcinogenicity for humans.'”

Monsanto is also demanding a retraction of the World Health Organization’s classification of glyphosate as a possible carcinogen.

This is not the first time that the chemical makeup of feminine care products has been put under the lens. A 2013 report by Women’s Voices for the Earth detailed how the feminine care industry sells products containing unregulated and potentially harmful chemicals, including preservatives, pesticides, fragrances and dyes

Source: foodandourhealth