Glyphosate and Other Harmful Contaminants Found in School Lunches
Moms Across America (MAA), an organization dedicated to creating healthy communities and families, has discovered that 95.3 percent of school lunch items contain glyphosate, which is classified as a carcinogen and an endocrine disrupter. That surprising finding came from toxicity testing on samples of food from the national school lunch program.1
Eighteen Moms Across America supporters’ children bought a school lunch and brought it home in an unused plastic bag. Each parent signed a form confirming the sample was untouched and uncontaminated. Each sample was frozen and sent by one-to-two-day shipping directly to Health Research Institute Laboratories in Fairfield, Iowa, where the toxicity testing was performed. Since the school lunch samples were collected from a national school lunch program, Moms Across America chose not to disclose the school location.2
Toxicity Testing Reveals National School Lunches Are Unsafe
The food toxicity testing project included analysis of 43 school lunches gathered from public schools in 15 U.S. states, a project funded by Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense (CHD). The samples were tested for glyphosate and 220 other pesticides, veterinary drugs, hormones, and heavy metals.3
The results showed that, not only did 95.3 percent of the lunches contain glyphosate, but 74 percent of the samples contained at least one of 29 harmful pesticides, and four veterinary drugs and hormones were found in nine school lunches samples at levels up to 130.76 ng/g. All of the school lunch samples—100 percent— contained heavy metals at levels up to 6,293 X higher than the EPA’s maximum levels allowed in drinking water and the majority of samples were very low in nutritional value.4
Many lunch items contained very high levels of glyphosate—above 25 ng/g—which are levels that have been proven to be harmful in animal studies. The highest level of glyphosate was found in a beef taco with soft tortilla at 286.77 ng/g and in pizza at 156.14 ng/g.5
The results also showed that 27.9 percent of the lunch samples contained the fungicide thiabendazole, which is known to suppress the immune system. Piperonal butoxide, a toxin that causes birth defects and neurodevelopmental problems, was detected in 41 percent of the samples.6
It is known that 30 million genetically modified school meals are served daily in America to children every day. Zen Honeycutt, director of Moms Across America, stated:
These test results of the school lunches show us that we have a national crisis on our hands. Our government is allowing our children to be poisoned with a shocking number of toxins that contribute to various health, behavioral, and learning issues. In addition, the nutrient density of the food is almost completely deficient, leaving our children’s bodies starving for nutrients, unable to develop properly, and lacking nutrients that their brains need to learn and make sound decisions. If our government cares about America remaining a superpower and a prosperous nation, it must immediately take action to supply organically grown, nutrient-dense food to our nation’s children.7
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