{"id":64387,"date":"2018-10-09T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/harinas-de-maiz-maseca-dio-positivo-en-residuos-toxicos-del-herbicida-de-monsanto\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T18:06:02","slug":"harinas-de-maiz-maseca-dio-positivo-en-residuos-toxicos-del-herbicida-de-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/harinas-de-maiz-maseca-dio-positivo-en-residuos-toxicos-del-herbicida-de-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Maseca Corn Flours Test Positive for Toxic Residues of Monsanto Weedkiller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 9, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consumidoresorganicos.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association Mexico (ACO)<\/a>, a project of US-based <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/campaigns\/safeguard-organic-standards\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a>, today announced that samples of Maseca brand white and yellow corn flours tested positive for residues of glyphosate and its main metabolite, AMPA. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup weedkiller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clear from our testing that Maseca&#8217;s claims of selling a &#8216;natural&#8217; and &#8216;nutritious&#8217; product are false and misleading,&#8221; said OCA&#8217;s international director, <span class=\"xn-person\">Ronnie Cummins<\/span>. &#8220;Consumers in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> and the US who care about pesticide contamination and GMOs should seek organic non-GMO alternatives to Maseca flours until the company agrees to source only non-GMO grains for its products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ACO test results on samples of Maseca white and yellow corn flour, sourced from different regions of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, showed glyphosate concentrations of between 5.14 ppb to 17.59 ppb. Some flour samples tested as high as 94.15 percent for the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMO).<\/p>\n<p>Activists have fought for and won a temporary ban on the open-field production of GM corn in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>. <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico&#8217;s<\/span> incoming president, <span class=\"xn-person\">Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador<\/span> has said that GMO corn will be permanently banned from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span> when he takes office on <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 1<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 2015<\/span>, the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark and potentially precedent-setting case, a <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> jury recently awarded <span class=\"xn-money\">$289 million<\/span> to a terminally ill former school groundskeeper who said the exposure to Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Fairfield, Iowa<\/span>-based <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hrilabs.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Health Research Institute<\/a> conducted the tests, under FAO testing protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Maseca, owned by <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>-based Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V., is the leading international brand of corn flours used widely in the production of tortillas.<\/p>\n<p><i>The <\/i><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a><\/i><i> is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit consumer advocacy organization focused on food, agriculture and environmental issues.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Organic Consumers Association<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MEXICO CITY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 9, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consumidoresorganicos.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association Mexico (ACO)<\/a>, a project of US-based <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/campaigns\/safeguard-organic-standards\" rel=\"nofollow\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a>, today announced that samples of Maseca brand white and yellow corn flours tested positive for residues of glyphosate and its main metabolite, AMPA&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}