The herbicide ingredient used to replace the glyphosate in Roundup and other weed products can kill intestinal bacteria and damage organs in various ways, new studies show.
The ingredient in Diquat is widely used in the US as weed hunters in vineyards and gardens, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the US is used in controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate and gun drops.
However, the new data show that Diquat is more toxic than glyphosate and the substance is banned from its risk in the UK, EU, China and many other countries. However, the EPS resisted the calls to ban, and the Roundup formulas with an ingredient reached the shelves last year.
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“From a human health point of view, this substance is a little more gloomy than glyphosate, so we see a miserable change, and the ineffective regulatory structure allows it,” said Nathan Donley, a scientific director of the Biological Diversity Center, who advocates stricter pesticide regulations but did not participate in new studies. The “regret change” is a scientific term used to describe the replacement of a toxic substance in a consumer product with an ingredient, which is also toxic.
Diquat is believed to be neurotoxin, carcinogen and associated with Parkinson’s disease. October Analysis of the EPA EPA data from Earth friends at EPA found that it is about 200 times more toxic than glyphosate in terms of chronic effects.
The Bayer, which is making Roundup, has faced nearly 175,000 lawsuits claiming that the product has been a product of damage. Bayer, which 2018 Bought Monsanto, and after the International Cancer Research Agency redesigned Roundup to classify glyphosate as a possible carcinogen after the International Cancer Research Agency.
The new review of the scientific literature is partly focused on a variety of ways in which Diquat damages organs and intestinal bacteria, including reducing the level of protein, which are the main levels of the intestinal mucosa. Weakening can allow toxins and pathogens to move from the stomach to the bloodstream and cause inflammation in the intestine and throughout the body. Meanwhile, Diquat can inhibit the production of beneficial bacteria supporting the intestinal mucosa.
The authors said mucosal damage also inhibits nutrient absorption and energy metabolism.
Studies continue to examine how the substance is harmful to the kidneys, lungs and liver. DIQUAT “causes irreversible structural and functional kidney damage” as it can destroy the membranes of the kidney cells and interfere with cell signals. The effect of the liver is similar and the ingredient causes the production of protein that covers the organ.
Meanwhile, it seems to attack the lungs, causing inflammation that damages the organ tissue. More broadly, the inflammation caused by Diquat can cause multimedia organ dysfunction syndrome – script as the organ systems begin to collapse.
The authors note that many studies are about rodents and need more research on low long -term effects. The Bayer did not immediately respond to the request to comment.
Despite the risk of increasing DIQUAT, the EPA does not review chemicals, and even non -profit organizations, which encourage stricter pesticide rules, focused their attention elsewhere.
Donley said partially because the US rules of pesticide are so weak that supporters are linked to fights for ingredients such as glyphosate, parakvat and chlorpirifs – substances that are banned elsewhere but still widely used here. Diquat is “overshadowed” by those ingredients.
“Other countries have banned Diquat, but in the US we are still fighting the battles that Europe won 20 years ago,” Donley said. “It was not a radar for most groups and it really says a lot about the sad and miserable state of pesticides in the US.”
Some supporters accused the EPS’s industrial hobby, and Donley said US pesticide laws were so weak that it was difficult for the agency to ban the ingredients, even if the will exists. For example, the agency banned chlorpirifs in 2022, but the court annulled the decision after the industry filed a claim.
In addition, the EPA pesticide service seems to have a philosophy stating that toxic pesticides are “necessary evil,” Donley said.
“When you address that lens problem, you will only do it,” he said.