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W JIUL 5 I UUl IJUIIY V[UUC V1 UlYP OSLUC: I rage,+ 01 1-) resistant to glyphosate. Glyphosate is also used in forestry, urban, and home applications. Glyphosate has been detected in the air during spraying, in water, and in food. The general population is exposed primarily through residence near sprayed areas, home use, and diet, and the level that has been observed is generally low. IP92ILCJFemphasis added] Question: So, how does glyphosate get into both human and animal diets? Answer: As residues remaining on genetically modified food crops,then eaten as fresh food or prepared packaged foods, which typically have many other processing ingredients added that contain additional glyphosate residues from such staples as soy, corn, sugar beets, or canola oil. Those four crops, in some form, are ubiquitous in packaged foods. They are used for all sorts of production reasons from seasonings to taste enhancers to being components of food processing chemicals, additives and/or preservatives. Just to give readers an idea of some other chemicals used in the manufacture of processed foods, I've included the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Food Additives/Food Processing"01 in the Reference section at the end. Those chemicals add to, and compound, the total chemical loads found in processed food. Genetically modified or genetically engineered food crops have the ability to withstand excessive applications of the herbicide Roundup®, especially since Monsanto's Roundup Ready® GMO seeds allow crops to resist glyphosate, the toxic ingredient in Roundup, which is sprayed to kill weeds during growing season, but also sprayed on some cereal/grain/legume crops [wheat, feed barley, oats, canola,flax, peas, lentils, dry beans, and soy] at the end of their growing season, and before harvest, to act as a desiccant. (1,11 http://ww-w.the-open-mind.com/whats-your-daily-)64ie-of-glyphosate/ 3/31/2015