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Monsanto, and its German owner Bayer, maintain that glyphosate does not pose a health risk, and government officials say that residues of glyphosate and other pesticides found in food products are almost always so low that they are not considered harmful.

But international scientists affiliated with the World Health Organization have classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans, and recent studies out of Europe have found glyphosate herbicides pose not just cancer, but other health risks.

You can find the results on Healthy Florida First

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

The supposed HFF website does not state their exact findings, nor have a scientific paper regarding their findings, nor have any sort of transparency like who's even operating and funding the website.

There is a link to a form supposedly allowing anyone to report about "bad" food, but that's suspicious.

Domain name is about 34 days old. https://whois.domaintools.com/exposingfoodtoxins.com

Very sketchy.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

As far as I am aware, this is a new initiative from Florida's government, see:

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2026/florida-releases-bread-testing-results-under-healthy-florida-first-initiative

https://www.floridahealth.gov/2026/01/09/icymi-florida-releases-infant-formula-test-results-under-healthy-florida-first/

https://www.floridahealth.gov/2026/01/26/icymi-florida-releases-candy-testing-results-under-healthy-florida-first-initiative/

Governor Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced new food safety findings under the Healthy Florida First initiative, with the release of bread product testing results conducted by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to increase transparency for Florida families and reinforce accountability for everyday food products.

Those are definitely valid criticism that should have been addressed on their website

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

They spend lots of time and money on worrying about ingredients; they could as well sell bags of chia seeds or space protein goo in jars.

Unless they provide more information, it feels like there's a profit motive in what appears to be meaningful activism against supposedly "harmful" food. Knowing DeSantis being a clone copy of Mussolini, I'd consider following the money.