Pasta, in Italy, is the most consumed food: according to research byItalian food union 9 out of 10 Italians eat it regularly. Also for this reason it is a product that is increasingly in the spotlight. Especially wheat, the main ingredient behind the production of pasta. According to the analysis of Life buoy, conducted in the laboratory on 20 steps of spaghetti, 7 products would have traces of glyphosate. In 6 of these (Divella, long S, Eurospin, Garofalo, Lidl e Rummo), the wheat came from non-European countries.
Does glyphosate in pasta come from Canada?
The doubts raised by the authors of the analysis relate to the origin of the grains analyzed. The strongest suspicion is that they arrived from Canada: there is no certainty because the legislation onlabeling allows companies to generically indicate the ‘EU’ and / or ‘non-EU’ origin.
In contrast, however, the glyphosate it is not found only in imported products. This is testified by the concentration – albeit contained and below the legal limits as for the other samples – found in the Agnesi spaghetti with 100% Italian wheat.
Glyphosate in pasta: what it is and why it is dangerous
Glyphosate is a herbicide often used before and after planting. In fact, its function is therefore to clean fields or orchards from weeds, but it has some side effects. In effect, it represents a substance that can lead to the development of tumor forms. But not only that, other studies have shown damage to the liver, as well as to the endocrine system.
The glyphosate though it is not the only pesticide present in pasta, but according to the analyzes it would still be the most present. And the problem, for Italians who are habitual consumers of pasta, is obvious.
The analyzes conducted by the Lifebuoy also revealed the presence of the mycotossin Deossinivalenolo, known as Don, the “vomitoxin” dangerous especially for children: all the samples analyzed are below the legal limit for adults (750 mcg / kg) even if in three cases – Garofalo, Agnesi e Lidl – the concentrations are higher than the limit for children under three years (200 mcg / kg). These are not pediatric pastas, but the advice is not to prepare them for the little ones.
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