By walterbell - 3 hours ago
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> One sample of Quaker Old Fashioned Oats measured at more than 1,000 parts per billion of glyphosate.
That's 1 part per million (ppm), found in one particular sample. I imagine this was the most extreme outlier, as otherwise it would not be mentioned as prominently.
And then, right in the next sentence:
> The Environmental Protection Agency has a range of safe levels for glyphosate on crops such as corn, soybeans, grains and some fruits, spanning 0.1 to 310 parts per million.
So one sample measured within the bounds that are deemed safe. On the one hand, 1ppm is well above the 0.1ppm that is deemed safe for some of these crops by the EPA. On the other hand, this egregious sample is way lower than the 310ppm deemed safe for some other crops by the EPA.
What gives. What is this article trying to say? It seems like it is trying to be sensationalistic.
Can someone explain if I am reading this wrong? Maybe there's a typo in the article?
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