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It's also a neurotoxin in humans: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/

Almost everything is neurotoxic depending on the dose. Sodium Chloride(Table Salt) will reek havoc on your brain and nervous systems if the concentration gets to high. Why you get muscle cramps and dizzy when dehydrated. Luckily the study addresses this and says that you have heavily dose rats to get a neurotoxic effect but humans will never see this dose under environmental exposure.

> Most of studies of rodents analyzed in this review used doses of glyphosate or GBH that did not exceed the current NOAEL and ranged from 5 mg/kg [68] to 800 mg/kg [13]. These doses are not representative of human environmental exposures, which are in the range of μg/kg/day.

Rotten eggs reek, wreaking havoc on your olfactory sensibilities.

The main point of that section you're quoting is that NOAEL has been set way too high and they didn't account for neurotoxicity. We need more studies. We don't really know at what levels neurotoxicity becomes a problem in human.

> the data discussed herein suggest that these values may still be too high. The results analyzed in this review suggest that the ability of glyphosate, alone or in formulation, to produce neurotoxic effects in rodents has been underestimated.

Just to be clear when they talk about NOAEL amount. Its a lot of glyphosate. NOAEL for a human person is drinking two bottles of roundup. The other ingredients(surfactants) would do you in before the glyphosate. Amount humans are exposed to very minimal as mentioned in the study. Don't drink roundup.

We don't know if the amounts humans are exposed to are very minimal.

Water is also neurotoxic in large quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Is there glyphosate in our food? How does it get there?

Mainly Roundup residues on GMO foods, as well as farm runoff in groundwater. EPA estimates we're all exposed to 0.058–0.230 mg/kg/day and they set the maximum acceptable daily dose at 1.75 mg/kg/day. But the available dosage science is weak.

Why mainly through GMO foods? I am wondering if other non-GMO ones would use mostly non Roundups, which would be a surprise to me given the availability of Roundups for vegetation control purpose around houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready

Thanks this is great data. Not sure who is downvoting you or why

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