Pesticide Linked to Reproductive Issues Found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats, and Other oat-based foods. – The Expose

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Again we are reminded that wealth comes before health, this time due to a pesticide called Chlormequat chloride, which is approved and being used in food crops in the UK, EU, and Canada and its use is now on the rise in the U.S. This is despite the findings in animal studies that the chemical lowers fertility and testosterone, disrupts the reproductive process and can even harm the developing fetus!

 

Despite the findings of the toxicological studies on this little-heard-of pesticide, chlormequat chloride has been approved for use in food crops in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and although it is only approved for ornamental plants in the United States it is now showing up in the overwhelming majority of oat-based foods sold in the U.S.including popular cereal brands Quaker Oats and Cheerios.

 

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