Re: Roundup research on toxicity

**G*@aol.com**

Andrew,

There are other ingredients in Roundup, intentionally and unintentionally. If 
you google "ingredients in roundup" you'll get some interesting hits, such as 
this one posted by the Northwest Coalition for Alternative to Pesticides 
http://www.pesticide.org/default.htm

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency in a letter dated April 
30, 1999, in response to a Freedom of Information Request, the following inert 
ingredients are in RoundUp Super Concentrate Weed & Grass Killer:

1.  Polyoxyethylene alkylamine (CAS #61791-2)

2.  Water (CAS #7732-18-5)

3.  FD&C Blue No. 1 (CAS #3844-45-9)

David H. Monroe, an Industrial and Environmental Toxicologist, stated in an 
October 16, 1989 letter to the National Campaign Against the Misuse of 
Pesticides (NCAMP) that most polyalkoxylated surfactants such as the polyoxyethylene 
alkylamine in RoundUp are contaminated with 1,4-dioxane.  A study done by 
Monroe on Vision, a glyphosate product by Monsanto, revealed that it contained 
1,4-dioxane at a level of 350 ppm.

(Monroe D, 1989.  Letter to NCAMP.)

1,4-dioxane is carcinogenic, and is known to damage the liver, kidney, brain 
and lungs.

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