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RapSoDee

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Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:47 PM Aug 2016

Roundup’s Glyphosate found in tampons

Apparently there are a handful of people herabouts who are gung ho about having glyphosate in their wine. They will probably flock to this thread also to praise the fact, or at least to minimize, the fact that the herbicide is also found now in tampons.

But level headed people who have no interest other than good health, will regard this needless pollution of tampons with chemical poisons as a heinous corporate betrayal of their most intimate trust.

"According to a new study by the University of La Plata in Argentina,most tampons (at least 85 per cent), cotton balls and sanitary products contain glyphosate: an ingredient that has been ruled as "probably carcinogenic" by the World Health Organization, notes RT news.

"The result of this research is very serious. When you use cotton or gauze to heal wounds or [for personal hygienic uses] thinking they are sterilized products, [the result is that they are] contaminated with a carcinogenic substance," said pediatrician Vazquez Medardo Avila in the Spanish study..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/26/tampons-carcinogens_n_8392912.html

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Roundup’s Glyphosate found in tampons (Original Post) RapSoDee Aug 2016 OP
kicking for exposure TalkingDog Aug 2016 #1
Kick and rec. Squinch Aug 2016 #2
This is not right RapSoDee Aug 2016 #3
This just helps awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #4
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