Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows | Herbicides

The ingredient of herbal pesticides can replace glendups in Roundup and other Weedkiller products by killing the intestine bacteria and damaging its members in multiple ways, A new research shows.

The component, Diquat, is widely used in the United States as a herbal in chrome and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbal pesticides such as glephosite and pairlakat in the United States.

But the new piece indicates that Diquat is more toxic than glephos, and the material is banned on its risks in the United Kingdom, the European Union, China and many other countries. However, the Environmental Protection Agency resisted calls for a ban, and round formulas with the component that struck the shelves last year.

“From the perspective of human health, these things are slightly more famous than glephos, so we see an unfortunate alternative, and the ineffective organizational structure allows this,” said Nathan Donley, director of science at the Center for Biodiversity, which calls for the ineffective organizational structure that allows it but did not participate in the new research. “Unfortunate replacement” is a scientific term used to describe the replacement of a toxic substance in the consumer product with a toxic component as well.

Diquat is also believed to be nervous poison and cancer and is associated with Parkinson’s disease. October analysis From EPA data by non -profit land friends, it was found that it was 200 times more toxic than glevosate in terms of chronic exposure.

Bayer, who manufactures Roundup, faced approximately 175,000 lawsuits claiming that product users have been harmed by the product. Bayer, who bought Monsanto in 2018, was reformulated after the International Research Agency on cancer -classified glephs as a potential carcinogen.

The new review of scientific literature is partially focused on the multiple methods that destroy the DiQUAT of the intestinal bacteria and bacteria, including by reducing the level of proteins that are main pieces in the lining of the intestine. Weakness can allow toxins and pathogens to move from stomach to the bloodstream, and leads to inflammation in the intestine and throughout the body. Meanwhile, Diquat can prevent the production of beneficial bacteria that maintain the lining of the intestine.

The authors said that the damage to the lining also prohibits the absorption of food and energy metabolism.

The search for how to harm the material is used with kidneys, lungs and liver. Diquat “causes structural damage and an irreversible function of the kidneys” because it can destroy kidney cell membranes and interfere with cell signals. The effects of the liver are similar, and the component causes the production of proteins that hit the organ.

Meanwhile, it appears to attack the lungs by running the inflammation that harms the organs of the organ. On a wider scale, inflammation caused by Diquat may cause multiple defects syndrome, a scenario in which organ systems begin to fail.

Authors note that many studies are on rodents and more research on long -term low exposure. Bayer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Despite the risks amid the high use of Diquat, the Environmental Protection Agency does not decline the chemical, and even non -profit organizations that push the most hard -line pesticide regulations, focused their attention greatly anywhere else.

This was partial because American pesticide regulations are so weak that the defenders Linked to the battles On ingredients such as glephosate, palakawat and churperifos – banned materials elsewhere but are still widely used here. Dicks “overwhelmed” by these ingredients.

“Other countries have banned Dicks, but in the United States we are still fighting the battles that Europe won 20 years ago,” said Donley. “He did not reach the radar of most groups, and this says a lot about the state of sad and institutional pesticides in the United States.”

Some defenders have Accusing the Environmental Protection Agency From being captured by the industry, Donley said that the laws of American pesticides were so weak that it was difficult for the agency to prohibit ingredients, even if the will was present. For example, the agency was banned in 2022, but the court canceled the decision after prosecuting the industry.

Moreover, the Pesticide Office at the Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a philosophy that states that toxic pesticides are “necessary evil,” said Donley.

“When you deal with a problem from that lens, there is a lot that you will do,” he said.