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Yes the surfactant helps it cross membranes. But what I meant is that when people tested the two parts separately the reasonably safe surfactant seemed more toxic than glyphosate, which provided me peace of mind that glyphosate can't be too toxic if soap is worse. But if a lot of the data is faked or manipulated that assumption isn't valid.


The opportunity to ask the opinion of someone who saw research data is too much appealing.

Given the fact that Monsanto manipulated and faked data in the past (http://www.williamsanjour.name/monsanto.htm), what's your stance on this study ?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15182708

[2] http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/44475050/Glyp...

[3] http://www.cyberacteurs.org/sans_ogm/fichiers/boc0960245.pdf

Is this something serious or not? I've always wondered about the strength of the document.


Oh, the only data I've seen are the published papers. I have no inside info.

#2 won't load for me

For #1 and 3 I would say that the concentrations used are very high. I would not expect anyone except workers spraying Roundup maybe to ever encounter something like millimolar levels of it. We usually deal with things at the nanomolar or micromolar scale of concentrations in science.


so it's really a problem for the farmer rather than something regarding the customer.

thank you very much! I sought a confirmation for a while ..




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