Research published last year shows that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes birth defects in frogs and chicken embryos at far lower levels than used in agricultural and garden applications.
The malformations primarily affected the:
- Skull
- Face
- Midline and developing brain
- Spinal cord
Other independent scientific research has also found that glyphosate causes:
- Endocrine disruption
- DNA damage
- Developmental toxicity
- Neurotoxicity
- Reproductive toxicity
- Cancer
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