for a Feldman - why organic produce should be prefered

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here's an article re the presence of polyacrylamide, a well known additive to

commercial herbicide mixtures (25% to 30% solutions) to reduce spray drift and

to act as a surfactant.

Experiments showed that heat and light contribute to the release of acrylamide

from polyacrylamide, and glyphosate was found to influence the solubility of

polyacrylamide, so care was advised in mixing the two.

The evidence seems compelling, therefore, that acrylamide is being released from

polyacrylamide in the environment, one of the main sources of which is in

glyphosate herbicide formulations. Cooking vegetables that had been exposed to

the glyphosate herbicide used with herbicide-tolerant crops, or used during soil

preparation for normal crops would result in the releasing more acrylamide.

Worse yet, additives such as polyacrylamide are designated ‘trade secrets’ in

North America and information on the contents of herbicide preparations are not

available to the public.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/acrylamide.php

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