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    • Glyphosate Found in 100% of California Wine Tested, Even Organic

    By on January 13, 2019

    All California wines tested contain Roundup’s main ingredient glyphosate, which the State of California now classifies as a “known carcinogen”

    Before you pick up your next bottle of cab from California, you should know you’ll most likely be sipping on a significant helping of Monsanto’s infamous Roundup herbicide.

    The national GMO awareness group, Moms Across America, sent ten bottles of California wine to Microbe Inotech Lab in St.Louis, including organic and biodynamic brands.

    All ten wines tested positive for glyphosate.

    The wines tested came from across the northern coastal region of California — Napa Valley, Sonoma and Mendocino counties — aka ” Wine Country.”

    The contamination levels were 28 times higher in conventional wine than organic wine, with levels ranging from .659 parts per billion in organic to 18.74 parts per billion in conventional wine.

    The highest level of glyphosate was found in a 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon from a conventional, chemically-farmed vineyard. The lowest was in a 2013 Syrah from a biodynamic and organic vineyard that had never been sprayed according to the owner. A second organic wine from 2012 mixed red wine grapes, had .913 ppb of glyphosate.

    German scientists have shown that even .1 ppb of glyphosate, which is

    patented as an antibiotic, has been shown to destroy beneficial gut bacteria and promote the proliferation of pathogenic gut bacteria. The gut bacteria are responsible for 70% of the immune system.

    As little as .1 part per trillion of glyphosate has also been shown to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells.
    The World Health Organization classifies glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen,” while the State of California recently added it to a list of “known carcinogens.”
    Of the 57,000 pounds of glyphosate/Roundup used in Napa County in 2013, 50,000 pounds were applied on vineyards, according to the California Department of Pesticide Registry.
    Breast cancer rates in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties is 10 to 20 percent higher than the national average, according to the California Deptartment of Health.

    Since the majority of vineyards in these three counties use Roundup/glyphosate, it is suspected that airborne drift from nearby vineyards is contaminating organic crops.

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